Stable Quality
Votes: 8
Free & Open Source license
Tiny utilities for small and embedded systems - enhanced package
BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides the default shell used in Maemo. This package replaces the default BusyBox executable with the latest upstream version. It also includes Maemo-specific bug fixes, a lot more utilities and additional features (like Ctrl-R reverse history search, proper shell history handling and swapon with priority support).
Also see http://talk.maemo.org/showthread.php?t=72801.
This package won't overwrite any existing symlinks and binaries providing the same functionality (like GNU tar if installed/symlinked).
Additional utilities provided over the default BusyBox package: bunzip2 bzcat bzip2 cpio cttyhack dnsdomainname dumpkmap ed fbset fdflush hush ip ipaddr iplink iproute iprule mountpoint mt nc pipe_progress popmaildir pscan usleep blockdev bootchartd crond fdisk ifenslave ip iptunnel klogd loadkmap logread makedevs mdev nbd-client raidautorun setconsole sulogin sysctl syslogd vconfig adjtimex arping base64 beep brctl cal catv chpst chrt crontab cryptpw dc devmem diff dos2unix dumpleases eject envdir envuidgid ether-wake fdformat fgconsole flock freeramdisk ftpget ftpput hexdump ionice iostat ipcalc last length less linux32 linux64 loadfont lpd lpq lpr lzcat lzma lzop lzopcat makemime man microcom mkpasswd mpstat nmeter patch pmap readahead reformime resize rev rpm rpm2cpio rtcwake runsv runsvdir rx script scriptreplay setarch setfont setuidgid showkey smemcap softlimit strings sv svlogd tcpsvd telnet tftp timeout traceroute traceroute6 ttysize udhcpc udpsvd unix2dos unlzma unlzop unxz unzip uudecode uuencode vlock volname wall xz xzcat ar acpid add-shell addgroup adduser arp chat delgroup deluser dhcprelay dnsd fakeidentd ftpd hdparm httpd ifplugd inetd lspci ntpd rdate rdev readprofile remove-shell sendmail sha256sum sha512sum telnetd tftpd tunctl udhcpd watchdog zcip whois pstree pwdx groups users setserial nameif ubirsvol
| Author | Dennis Groenen |
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Note: The warning shown during first-time installation can be pretty scary. There are, however, no pit-falls in the the package I'm aware of. Be assured, a lot of care has been put into this package to prevent (possible) issues.
The version in extras-devel has a less scary warning, which will hopefully make its way into extras at a later point in time.