Re: Busybox Package & Where did put ipks on hh.org?

I think you're probably talking about busybox, which lives at
http://busybox.lineo.com/

There have been a few discussions of this in the past, with no concrete
decision. I think the general feeling is that you lose significant (not
commonly used, but significant nonetheless) functionality in exchange for
saving a not-particularly-huge amount of flash.

That said, I use it on my iPAQ, mainly for little things like uptime and
free, but I use the vi in there a lot, and you can get quite a nice
interactive shell by messing around with the build options.

Cheers
Richard

On Fri, 27 Jul 2001, Alex Sack wrote:

> Hi everybody,
>
> Thanks to Oliver for putting up the first set of ipkg-build utilities I was
> able to successfully make some packages! Ahh, the job of a packaging
> system.
>
> Anyway, has anyone looked at:
>
> http://lineo.handhelds.org
>
> Its a system utility that provides ALOT of basic commands that Familiar does
> not right out of the box (pun intended). I have made and tested the package
> on Intimate (you'll see the anouncement shortly) and it works great.
>
> One of the nicest things it provides is telnet so if your not running a sshd
> on your host side you can still log on. The package has all the
> functionality configured so there is some overlap (I will have to boot up
> Familiar and check what you guys have and what it provides). But even fully
> configured the binary is ~340 kb which is really really nice.
>
> Does anyone have any interest and checking this out? If yes, then:
>
> I would really like to add this package to the repoisitory - How do I do
> that? (currently if you run Intimate its there!)
>
> Alexander (pisymbol)
>
> PS Please forgive the hotmail address - I have to migrate, I just setup a
> new box at home.
>
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Received on Fri Jul 27 2001 - 11:08:57 EDT