June 2017
Intermediate to advanced
478 pages
13h 14m
English
BusyBox is not the only game in town. In addition, there is ToyBox, which you can find at http://landley.net/toybox/. The project was started by Rob Landley, who was previously a maintainer of BusyBox. ToyBox has the same aim as BusyBox, but with more emphasis on complying with standards, especially POSIX-2008 and LSB 4.1, and less on compatibility with GNU extensions to those standards. ToyBox is smaller than BusyBox, partly because it implements fewer applets. However, the main difference is the license, which is BSD rather than GPL v2. This makes it license compatible with operating systems with a BSD-licensed user space, such as Android, and hence it is part of all the new Android devices.
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