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author | Aleksej Bobylev <al.bobylev@gmail.com> |
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date | Fri May 04 14:33:10 2018 +0300 (2018-05-04) |
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1.1 --- a/busybox/description.txt Mon Feb 20 16:36:25 2012 -0800 1.2 +++ b/busybox/description.txt Fri May 04 14:33:10 2018 +0300 1.3 @@ -1,7 +1,25 @@ 1.4 -BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single 1.5 -small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you 1.6 -usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox 1.7 -generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, 1.8 -the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave 1.9 -very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete 1.10 -environment for any small or embedded system. 1.11 +BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single 1.12 +small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities 1.13 +you usually find in bzip2, coreutils, dhcp, diffutils, e2fsprogs, file, 1.14 +findutils, gawk, grep, inetutils, less, modutils, net-tools, procps, sed, 1.15 +shadow, sysklogd, sysvinit, tar, util-linux, and vim. The utilities in BusyBox 1.16 +often have fewer options than their full-featured cousins; however, the options 1.17 +that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like 1.18 +their larger counterparts. 1.19 + 1.20 +BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind, 1.21 +both to produce small binaries and to reduce run-time memory usage. Busybox is 1.22 +also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or 1.23 +features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize embedded systems; to 1.24 +create a working system, just add /dev, /etc, and a Linux kernel. Busybox 1.25 +(usually together with uClibc) has also been used as a component of "thin 1.26 +client" desktop systems, live-CD distributions, rescue disks, installers, and 1.27 +so on. 1.28 + 1.29 +BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small system, both 1.30 +embedded environments and more full featured systems concerned about space. 1.31 +Busybox is slowly working towards implementing the full Single Unix 1.32 +Specification V3 (http://www.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/), but isn't 1.33 +there yet (and for size reasons will probably support at most UTF-8 for 1.34 +internationalization). We are also interested in passing the Linux Test Project 1.35 +(http://ltp.sourceforge.net).