| Eric Andersen | a6beeb6 | 2003-12-23 10:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | <!--#include file="header.html" --> |
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| Eric Andersen | a6beeb6 | 2003-12-23 10:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 3 | <h3>BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</h3> |
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| Rob Landley | 1979d3c | 2006-06-27 22:33:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 5 | <p>BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single |
| Eric Andersen | a6beeb6 | 2003-12-23 10:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 6 | small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you |
| 7 | usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox |
| 8 | generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, |
| 9 | the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave |
| 10 | very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete |
| Rob Landley | 1979d3c | 2006-06-27 22:33:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 11 | environment for any small or embedded system.</p> |
| Eric Andersen | a6beeb6 | 2003-12-23 10:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 12 | |
| Rob Landley | 1979d3c | 2006-06-27 22:33:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 13 | <p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in |
| Eric Andersen | a6beeb6 | 2003-12-23 10:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 14 | mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude |
| 15 | commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize |
| 16 | your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device |
| Rob Landley | 1979d3c | 2006-06-27 22:33:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 17 | nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.</p> |
| Eric Andersen | a6beeb6 | 2003-12-23 10:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 18 | |
| Denis Vlasenko | 4a64c33 | 2006-12-30 22:03:02 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | <p>BusyBox is maintained by |
| 20 | <a href="mailto:vda.linux@googlemail.com">Denis Vlasenko</a>, |
| Rob Landley | 1979d3c | 2006-06-27 22:33:22 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | and licensed under the <a href="/license.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a> |
| 22 | version 2 or later.</p> |
| Eric Andersen | a6beeb6 | 2003-12-23 10:00:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | |
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