Project info for BusyBox

Created 9 Jul 2000 at 20:04 UTC by kraai, last modified 19 May 2001 at 17:19 UTC by kraai.

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BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip, tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.

BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add a kernel, a shell (such as ash), and an editor (such as elvis-tiny or ae).

BusyBox is now maintained by andersee, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by Lineo.

License: GPL

This project has the following developers:

beppu is a Developer.
andersee is a Lead Developer.
aaronl is a Contributor.
kraai is a Developer.
timriker is a Developer.
lethal is a Contributor.
proski is a Helper.

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