BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

[Wayne D]

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BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

"BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a
single small executable. It provides replacements for most of the
utilities you usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The
utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-
featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the
expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
BusyBox provides a fairly complete environment for any small or embedded
system.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in
mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude
commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize
your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device
nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel. "

http://www.busybox.net/about.html

http://www.busybox.net/

http://www.busybox.net/download.html

Regards

Wayne D

 

[Chaos Master]

Wayne D ([email protected]) caused an illegal operation in module

This might be of interest for the Linux users.

BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

For the curious, some distros already use it:

* BlueFlops. http://blueflops.sf.net [1]
* Tom's Root/Boot disk. http://www.toms.net/rb

[1] BlueFlops allows you to use browser and IRC client from 2 floppy disks.
Looks good but I have never been able to use it (I use a winmodem, and dial-up
support on this distro is bad)

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