BusyBox for peeweelinux

[Adi Linden]

Hi,

Yup, heard of busybox (and tinylogin). Both used to part of PeeWeeLinux
prior to the rpm compile business. I missed them in the conversion to
source rpms.

Now that you jogged my memory about them I will be adding them to
PeeWeeLinux shortly :) They're great for building floppy based systems, I
agree!

Please let me know how you make out with PeeWeeLinux! It would be nice to
see and know of users of it.

TTYL,
Adi


On Wed, 12 Jul 2000, Michael Hunt wrote:

> Hi ya,
> 
> My name is Michael Hunt and I am working on an embedded
> linux/router/firewall fro the organization that I work for and have been
> trying out LRP and peeweelinux. I like the pwlconfig script (though a grand
> toatl of all apckages would be nice rather than just for each package
> section).
> 
> I was wondering if you had heard of the busybox set of tools produced by
> Lineo. There website (http://busybox.lineo.com/) has the following to say
> about there product.
> 
> 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).
> 
> Apparently busy box is in use on such systems as Tomsrootboot disK, Storm
> Linux Install Disks, Debian rescue disk, and the Linux Router Project.
> 
> I think that this would also be a great addition to the peewelinux package
> and would help decrease size requirements even more.
> 
> Hope you find this info useful and could see your way to including it in
> your next release.
> 
> Michael Hunt
> Suffolk UK
> 

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