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

oh i think i will compile this on Skiffs :p nice product :) and i expect we
can win a little bit of place on the iPaq's Filesystem :p

Philippe
Email / Philippe@choup.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Cohen" <richard@vmlinuz.org>
To: "Alex Sack" <pisymbol@hotmail.com>
Cc: <familiar@handhelds.org>
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2001 8:16 PM
Subject: Re: [Familiar] 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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