Its developers call Busybox the "Swiss Army knife" of embedded Linux, because in one relatively small tool, it implements not just a Unix-style shell, but also about 300 different commands that are normally external programs in their own right. As a result, it's often found inside devices that use Linux in very resource-constrained environments, such as consumer firewall/routers.

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[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 23 points 1 day ago (2 children)

"Noooooooo! One tool should do one thing and one thing only! Blasphemy! Heresy! Anthema! Systemd!" crying in unix design philosophy

[–] Magister@lemmy.world 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

yeahs systemd I know yada yada :)

But working with embedded stuff, sometimes MCU with like 8MB embedded flash, have a 512k uboot, 1.5MB kernel, you are left with 6MB of flash for the whole application and lib, and busybox is a savior here!

[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 day ago

it was a joke xD i like busybox (and systemd) i don't particularly subscribe to the unix way, but to each their own ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] Phoenix3875@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Haha, but it's really a pack of tools, more like a toolbox.

[–] Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 14 hours ago

almost like it has box in the name for some sort of reason

[–] Masterkraft0r@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 day ago

BUT IT'S A SINGLE BINARY! UNACCEPTBLE!!!! THE BLOAT OF IT ALL!

[–] geneva_convenience@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

Isn't Alpine hype now?