[iPAQ] busybox experience

In a non-iPAQ context I've been using the busybox extensively.
I customize a Linux Router Project boot floppy by adding FTP,
so that the "internet appliance" I'm building boots off the
(write-locked) floppy and then downloads the rest of the stuff
it needs. I could easily have included a real shell and
utilities in the download, but I never bothered. The busybox
is usable enough, although I miss stuff like !! to the shell
and its true that "find" can only be used like "ls -R". The
upside is that an entirely useful Linux system fits on a floppy.
The iPAQ has a lot more space than I have when I'm starting up.

The question is whether you think that the shell will be used
mostly via xscribble or mostly via remote connections. Most of
the keyboard accelerators and so on don't really win using
xscribble -> xterm. Just a very vanilla "sh" is all you need,
and that's what you get with the busybox.

        David.

        
Received on Wed Sep 20 09:34:58 2000