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4<h3>External Tiny Utilities</h3>
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6This is a list of tiny utilities whose functionality is not provided by
7busybox. If you have additional suggestions, please send an e-mail to our
8dev mailing list.
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Rob Landley73810e82006-09-13 19:54:36 +000012<table border=1>
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14 <th>Feature</th>
15 <th>Utilities</th>
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19 <td>SSH</td>
Rob Landleyb90a3712006-08-16 21:10:27 +000020 <td><a href="http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/">Dropbear</a> has both an ssh server and an ssh client that together come in around 100k. It has no external
21dependencies (I.E. it does not depend on OpenSSL, using a built-in copy of
22LibTomCrypt instead). It's actively maintained, with a quiet but responsive
23mailing list.</td>
Mike Frysinger77dbe732005-04-17 04:32:22 +000024</tr>
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26<tr>
27 <td>SMTP</td>
Rob Landley73810e82006-09-13 19:54:36 +000028 <td><a href="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/">ssmtp</a> is an extremely simple Mail Transfer Agent.</td>
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Rob Landley73810e82006-09-13 19:54:36 +000030
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32 <td>ntp</td>
33 <td><a href="http://doolittle.icarus.com/ntpclient/">ntpclient</a> is a
34tiny ntp client. BusyBox has rdate to set the date from a remote server, but
35if you want a daemon to repeatedly adjust the clock over time, try that.</td>
Mike Frysinger77dbe732005-04-17 04:32:22 +000036</table>
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Rob Landleyac664e02006-03-09 18:20:43 +000038<p>In a gui environment, you'll probably want a web browser.
Bernhard Reutner-Fischer3515f6e2006-04-10 19:16:50 +000039<a href="http://www.konqueror.org/embedded/">Konqueror Embedded</a> requires QT
40(or QT Embedded), but not KDE. The <a href="http://www.dillo.org/">Dillo</a>
41requires GTK+, but not Gnome. Or you can try the <a href="http://links.twibright.com/">graphical
Rob Landleyac664e02006-03-09 18:20:43 +000042version of links</a>.</p>
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Rob Landley686298d2006-09-01 17:38:23 +000044<h3>SCRIPTING LANGUAGES</h3>
45<p>Although busybox has built-in support for shell scripts, plenty of other
46small scripting languages are available on the net. A few examples:</p>
Rob Landley73810e82006-09-13 19:54:36 +000047<table border=1>
Rob Landley686298d2006-09-01 17:38:23 +000048<tr>
49<th><language></th>
50<th><description></th>
51</tr>
52<tr>
53<td> <a href=http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0003.html>microperl</a> </td>
54<td> A small standalone perl interpreter that can be built from the perl source
55s via "make -f Makefile.micro". If you really feel the need for perl on an embe
56dded system, this is where to start.
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60<td><a href=http://www.lua.org/pil/>Lua</a></td>
61<td>If you just want a small embedded scripting language to write <em>new</en>
62code in, this Brazilian import is lightweight, fairly popular, and has
63a complete book about it online.</td>
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67<td><a href= http://www.star.le.ac.uk/%7Etjg/rc/>rc</a></td>
68<td>The PLAN9 shell. Not compatible with conventional bourne shell syntax,
69but fairly lightweight and small.</td>
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72</tr>
73<tr>
74<td><a href=http://www.forth.org>forth</a></td>
75<td>A well known language for fast and small programs, decades old but still
76in use for everything from OpenBIOS to computer controlled engine timing.</td>
77</tr>
78</table>
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Rob Landleyb90a3712006-08-16 21:10:27 +000080<p>For more information, you probably want to look at
81<a href=http://buildroot.uclibc.org>buildroot</a> and
82<a href=http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo>TinyGentoo</a>, which
83build and use tiny utilities for all sorts of things.</p>
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