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| 6 | <h3>BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</h3> |
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| 9 | BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single |
| 10 | small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you |
| 11 | usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox |
| 12 | generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, |
| 13 | the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave |
| 14 | very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete |
| 15 | environment for any small or embedded system. |
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| 17 | <p> |
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| 19 | BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in |
| 20 | mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude |
| 21 | commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize |
| 22 | your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device |
| 23 | nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel. |
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| 25 | <p> |
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| 27 | BusyBox is maintained by <a href= |
| 28 | "http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik Andersen</a>, and |
| 29 | licensed under the |
| 30 | <a href= "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a> |
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| 32 | <p> |
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| 35 | <h3>Sponsors</h3> |
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| 37 | Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their |
| 38 | support! They have provided money for equipment and |
| 39 | bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project, |
| 40 | consider these fine companies! |
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| 43 | <ul> |
| 44 | <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br> |
| 45 | Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms |
| 46 | </li> |
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| 48 | <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br> |
| 49 | Embedded open source consulting in Europe. |
| 50 | </li> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br> |
| 53 | Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc |
| 54 | development. |
| 55 | </li> |
| 56 | |
| 57 | </ul> |
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| 59 | If you wish to be a sponsor, or if you have already contributed and would like |
| 60 | your name added here, email <a href= "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>. |
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