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BusyBox Goes 1.0.0

Posted by michael on from the size-matters dept.

prostoalex writes "BusyBox, a stripped-down minimalistic toolkit for embedded Linux, is now shipping 1.0.0. ChangeLog is available on the project Web site."

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  1. The people that make this... by cs02rm0 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...are liars I tell you!

    They robbed us of a real screenshot!

  2. And now we are waiting for uclibc ver 1.0 by geirt · · Score: 5, Interesting

    uclibc is a tiny libc which fits BusyBox very well. A complete linux system (without kernel) can be built using less than 500kbyte with busybox and uclibc.

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  3. Obligatory by geeveees · · Score: 5, Informative

    ...link to the Hall Of Shame: http://www.busybox.net/shame.html

    It's a list of all the companies that use(d) BusyBox in some way without releasing the source code.

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  4. busybox is not .. by josepha48 · · Score: 4, Informative

    ... just for Linux anymore.. it is also available for FreeBSD and NetBSD, in their packages / ports sections.. anyone who wants to make a small basic rescue floppy / bootable cd could probably use this..

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  5. distro by vijaya_chandra · · Score: 4, Informative

    GeexBox is one cool tiny linux distro for creating bootable media discs using BusyBox

    Let the box be busy