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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 Mar 17 15:07:45 2017 +0200
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     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).