Ubiquiti does not lock their bootloaders like phone manufacturers do.

It is very, very easy to run vanilla Linux (or even OpenBSD) on their hardware. I do exactly this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26645062

Octeons (not Octeon-TX) are amazing processors. Ubiquiti makes killer hardware. I hear their software is junk but wouldn't really know since I always erase it immediately after unboxing.