D-Link will release a new access point called DAP-1360 in December. Nothing mind-blowing about that, all hardware vendors release new products now and then. The cool thing with DAP-1360 is that it is running Linux (i.e GPL firmware) and D-Link is also providing a SDK (on request) for home brewers to be able to make their own firmware’s for it.
Personally, I guess that there will be ports of OpenWRT and DD-WRT for this unit in a very near future. The only ting I actually miss in the specifications (ftp://ftp.dlink.eu/datasheets/DAP-1360.pdf) for the device is support for Power over Ethernet, but I guess that you can’t have everything sometimes. 
I really salute D-Link for this initiative and I hope that we will see a D-Link box with the same wonderful hardware (and firmware support) as Linksys WRT54GL!
DAP-1360, an alternative for WRT54GL in the near future?
// Fredrik “DXter” Jonsson
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