I will try to write a comparison one of theese days (once I know OpenWRT a bit better).

But the pros of OpenWRT seems to be performance. It is VERY nice to the system ressources, leaving a lot of free CPU and free memory to use with stuff like QoS.

Also in OpenWRT you can install more or less all the "central" functions like php enabled webserver, vsftp server and so on, directly in the flash with no need for external harddrive.

But.....more info will follow....

....if anyone knows in more detail more of the differences, please dont hesitate to reply to this post.

Then you need to mount some device on /opt and start installing packages into that...

There is a tutorial showing how.....