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busybox provides coreutils, with a focus on being as stripped-down as possible. in other words, busybox provides binaries like cat, ls, nano, sudo, etc. (basica
by woodrowbarlow 7y ago
busybox provides coreutils, with a focus on being as stripped-down as possible. in other words, busybox provides binaries like cat, ls, nano, sudo, etc. (basically enough to be able to do shell scripting) for use in memory-constrained embedded linux systems like internet routers or in-vehicle infotainment systems.
- christiansakai 7y agoGotcha. Might be out of my league
- woodrowbarlow 7y agodon't discount it! can you write a program that opens a text file and dumps its contents on STDOUT? then you can write `cat`! and there are oodles of tools that are as simple as that. the nice thing about contributing to a busybox-like distribution of coreutils is that they intentionally leave out the bells and whistles, since the target systems are memory-constrained. and you can do the development and testing right on your workstation. busybox is designed to be suitable for embedded devices, but the tools will run on any device with a linux kernel, as long as you can compile for the target CPU.