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Oct 3, 2026
JasonHOST
I know I've run into that when I've done the little projects where like you take the little, you know, mini-router thing that you would use as a wireless bridge.
JasonHOST
I forget what they were called, but you could zap this very lightweight Linux onto it and get a BusyBox and, I don't know, run some embedded thing.
JasonHOST
For people that have maybe just dabbled in the shell a little bit, do you have a quick way to summarize what BusyBox does and doesn't get you versus the full...
VeronicaGUEST
The typical utilities set is going to be much larger.
VeronicaGUEST
It's much more expansive.
VeronicaGUEST
And BusyBox is just, it's much narrower.
VeronicaGUEST
It can run on much more constrained stuff.
VeronicaGUEST
I have a Polycom phone that I hacked into a couple years ago.
Jeff MassieHOST
And then, uh, the other thing to think about, like, this is not the first project that's rewritten coreutils.
Jeff MassieHOST
You've got things like BusyBox.
Jeff MassieHOST
It's got its own rewrite of coreutils baked into BusyBox as part of it.
Jeff MassieHOST
Um, I mean, it's, it's, it's not that unique.
Jeff MassieHOST
It's not like it's the first time this has happened.
Jonathan BennettHOST
And then the other thing to think about, like, this is not the first project that's rewritten core utils.
Jonathan BennettHOST
You've got things like BusyBox, right? it's got its own rewrite of core utils baked into busybox as part of it um i mean it's it's it's not that unique it's not like it's the first time this has happened
Jeff MassieHOST
well i thought i thought and maybe i'm totally misremembering that they were concerned because it was in c or something and they weren't sure in you know 20 more years about c or something i mean it was something like that i thought like it's a
Jonathan BennettHOST
really a really crusty ncc that it's all built in yeah that could yeah i don't remember that exact detail but that sounds that sounds feasible
Jonathan BennettHOST
And then, uh, the other thing to think about, like this is not the first project that's rewritten coreutils.
Jonathan BennettHOST
You've got things like BusyBox.
Jonathan BennettHOST
It's got its own rewrite of coreutils baked into BusyBox as part of it.
Jonathan BennettHOST
Um, I mean, it's, it's, it's not that unique.
Jonathan BennettHOST
It's not like it's the first time this has happened.
Jonathan BennettHOST
And then the other thing to think about, this is not the first project that's rewritten core utils.
Jonathan BennettHOST
You've got things like BusyBox.
Jonathan BennettHOST
It's got its own rewrite of Core Utils baked into BusyBox as part of it.
Jonathan BennettHOST
I mean, it's not that unique.
Jonathan BennettHOST
It's not like it's the first time this has happened.
Jonathan BennettHOST
And then the other thing to think about, like, this is not the first project that's rewritten core utils.
Jonathan BennettHOST
You've got things like BusyBox, right? it's got its own rewrite of core utils baked into busybox as part of it um i mean it's it's it's not that unique it's not like it's the first time this has happened
Jeff MassieHOST
well i thought i thought and maybe i'm totally misremembering that they were concerned because it was in c or something and they weren't sure in you know 20 more years about c or something i mean it was something like that i thought like it's a
Jonathan BennettHOST
really a really crusty ncc that it's all built in yeah that could yeah i don't remember that exact detail but that sounds that sounds feasible
Jonathan BennettHOST
And then the other thing to think about, this is not the first project that's rewritten core utils.
Jonathan BennettHOST
You've got things like BusyBox.
Jonathan BennettHOST
it's got its own rewrite of core utils baked into busybox as part of it um i mean it's it's it's not that unique it's not like it's the first time this has happened
Jeff MassieHOST
well i thought i thought and maybe i'm totally misremembering that they were concerned because it was in c or something and they weren't sure in you know 20 more years about C or something.
Jan AltenbergGUEST
That doesn't make any sense at all.
Jan AltenbergGUEST
We make it open source to share the technical effort, Why not also sharing the licensing effort? What we started doing is providing a open-source project where you could share ready-to-use license compliance material for commonly used open-source packages like for Bash or for glibc, for the Linux kernel, for BusyBox.
Jan AltenbergGUEST
Right now with a strong focus on embedded Linux, but not necessarily, so it's open source it's on github you can if you want provide data you can just open a pull request there's a wiki wiki.osalot.org so if you want to learn how to contribute everything is there so this is yeah when it comes to to the topic of bill of materials
Jonathan BennettHOST
Yeah, I have said for a long time that...