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BusyBox
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common 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., and provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system.
BusyBox was written with limited resources and size-optimization in mind. It is also 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 use the busybox shell (not a POSIX shell, but very small and quite usable).
Last updated 18 Aug, 2005
About
Leadership
- Erik Andersen - Maintainer
- Matt Kraai - Contributor
- Larry Doolittle - Contributor
- Kent Robotti - Contributor
Related Projects
Versions
1.0.1
1.0.1 stable released 2005-08-18
- Released: 18 Aug, 2005
- Code Maturity: Stable
- Source Archive: http://www.busybox.net/downloads/busybox-1.01.t...
- Licenses: GPLv2
- Interfaces: Command Line
User Community and Support
User README available in HTML format from http://www.busybox.net/downloads/README; User manpage available in HTML format from http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html
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Support Resources
Development
Developer Resources
- VCS Checkout Command:
:pserver:anonymous@busybox.net:/var/cvs login - VCS Repository Webview