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How safe is Entware?

Çağlar Arlı      -    40 Views

How safe is Entware?

Entware is a repo (package manager?) for embedded devices like routers that allows you to run additional Linux tools and services. It seems to be fairly popular and is more or less officially supported and recommended by at least one major router manufacturer: Keenetic.

Quick glance at GitHub shows the project has a very small group of mostly Russian contributors. Installers for various platforms are not released on GitHub and are only available from their site hosted by Yandex in Russia.

Most likely these are great guys looking to help themselves and others run anti-censorship tools and the like. But still, a few red flags here. Maybe somebody familiar with this (or similar) projects can comment? Perhaps there's a safer way to run this, or a good alternative? I see no docs on compiling/contributing.