The second version of evRouter is a modernised version, essentially rewritten from scratch. It aims to be equivalent to evrouter, but breaks compatibility in favour of a new approach of doing things. The project is in the earliest stages of development, but a proof of concept version exists and works fairly well (modulo the obligatory bugs, warts, etc). I'm writing this short page to describe what my aims are, and to see if anyone is interested in providing feedback with feature requests or wishes. Here come the obligatory bullet points.

You have a Debian, Ubuntu or similar installation, and your /var partition keeps getting full when you upgrade. You check /var/cache/apt/archives and find it full of the usual mix of current and old versions of downloaded packages. Somehow, they haven't been deleted after installation, or you keep downloading them but not installing them. You now need a quick and clever way of cleaning up this mess, so only the latest version of each package remains.

In 2003, I was presented with a lovely Logitech optical mouse (an MX500). It had a wheel (not an ubiquitous feature then), no fewer than eight buttons, and an excellent 800 cpi resolution. Unfortunately, Linux would see it as a 400 cpi device, and two of the buttons would echo the wheel motion. A bit of quick research on the web uncovered the sage advice ‘you can't do anything about the extra buttons, live with it’. It also uncovered a list of vendor-specific USB control commands for Logitech mice (proving yet again that the majority of Linux users are no longer producers but ― at best ― consumers).

You just bought a shiny new motherboard, but the Linux kernel doesn't recognise some (or all) of the on-board PCI devices. Time to panic?