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explain relationship with NixWRT

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@ -17,6 +17,34 @@ of "limen", or "of the threshold". Your router stands at the threshold
of your (online) home and everything you send to/receive from the
outside word goes across it.
### What about NixWRT?
This is an in-progress rewrite of NixWRT, incorporating Lessons
Learned. That said, as of today (September 2022) it is not yet
anywhere _near_ feature parity.
Liminix will eventually provide these differentiators over NixWRT:
* a writable filesystem so that software updates or reconfiguration
(e.g. changing passwords) don't require taking the device offline to
reflash it.
* more flexible service management with dependencies, to allow
configurations such as "route through PPPoE if it is healthy, with
fallback to LTE"
* a spec for valid configuration options (a la NixOS module options)
to that we can detect errors at evaluation time instead of producing
a bad image.
* a network-based mechanism for secrets management so that changes can
be pushed from a central location to several Liminix devices at once
* send device metrics and logs to a monitoring/alerting/o11y
infrastructure
Today though, it does approximately none of these things and certainly
not on real hardware.
## Building