| B u s y B o x |
| The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux |
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BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities
you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip,
tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small
or embedded system. 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 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 a kernel, a shell (such as ash), and an editor (such as elvis-tiny or ae). For a really minimal system, just the the busybox shell (not a POSIX shell, but very small and quite usable). BusyBox is now maintained by Erik Andersen, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by Lineo. BusyBox is licensed under the GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
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