NetGear has released what’s being called the world‘s first native open source consumer router.

Officially,the router is known as the Open Source Wireless-G WGR614L, and NetGear writes that the router is aimed at Linux developers and open-source experts and includes a comprehensive open-source guide available for developers.

To that end, NetGear accompanied the release of the WGR614L with the launch of a My Open Router Web site that provides its community members with scads of configuration and installation information to put to use, as well as a Projects section, articles, and links to such third-party firmware as Tomato, DD-WRT, and Sveasoft.