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<h3>BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</h3>
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<p>BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
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small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you
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usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox
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generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however,
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the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave
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very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete
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environment for any small or embedded system.</p>
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<p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in
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mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude
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commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize
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your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device
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nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.</p>
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2006-06-27 22:33:22 +00:00
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<p>BusyBox is maintained by <a href="http://www.landley.net/">Rob Landley</a>,
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and licensed under the <a href="/license.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>
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version 2 or later.</p>
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