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Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by BoredPositron »

Imustaskforhelp wrote: post #39
BoredPositron wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Use it with a setup box?

my parents bought the "smart" tv a decade ago to switch away from setup box It was kinda expensive at the time, its wild of sorts how cheap of sorts TV's have become right now but still we bought it and its just e-waste right now. I am thinking of setting up a raspberry pi but I am more interested in learning the inner details or how to do things preferably without raspberry pi as well

It's not e-waste. Your ignorance for the easy solution makes it e-waste. There is nothing to learn from bad embedded systems.

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by M95D »

f33d5173 wrote: post #47
M95D wrote: post #46

It looks to me that busybox is abandoned [1]. Let's hope google money keeps toybox alive. [1] https://lists.busybox.net/pipermail/busybox-cvs/2024-January...

That is by no means the most recent message to the list, I don't see what causes you to claim it's abandoned.

Anyone can send mails to a mailing list. It doesn't mean anything.

busybox.net is down, along with their git and bugzilla, and the github mirror has last commit a year ago. The bugged tc.c was last updated 2 years ago.

https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/networking/tc....

So, yes, it looks abandoned.

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by sussmannbaka »

flyer23 wrote: post #36
hbffbjnb wrote: post #32

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Literally the first sentence in the readme Toybox: all-in-one Linux command line. I don't know what else you expect? It's common utilities in one executable

Really? You call that accurate description? I read that and immediatelly thought someone is doing some new Wayland terminal. Compare it to first sentence of BusyBox: BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable.

The actual first sentence of Toybox:

Toybox combines many common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable.

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by flyer23 »

sussmannbaka wrote: post #53
flyer23 wrote: post #36

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Really? You call that accurate description? I read that and immediatelly thought someone is doing some new Wayland terminal. Compare it to first sentence of BusyBox: BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable.

The actual first sentence of Toybox: Toybox combines many common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable.

Do a PR then to this repo and claim the glory, my point states valid until you do it

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by andai »

tredre3 wrote: post #8
andai wrote: post #3

See also, for Windows: w64devkit, and the included busybox-w32 https://github.com/skeeto/w64devkit https://frippery.org/busybox/

Although I love and use w64devkit myself, it seems like you should point people towards the original busybox rather than take two detours through an unrelated toolkit using an unofficial port of it?

I guess? I haven't used Busybox on Windows directly. This is a more complete environment for C/C++ development, which is what I used it for -- i.e. a lightweight alternative to Visual Studio / figuring out how to setup MSYS/mingw and going thru its package manager.

(As for MSYS, I somehow ended up with 4 separate installs of it due to each programming language bundling its own version!)

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by sussmannbaka »

flyer23 wrote: post #54
sussmannbaka wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The actual first sentence of Toybox: Toybox combines many common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable.

Do a PR then to this repo and claim the glory, my point states valid until you do it

No, it’s literally the first sentence. Not the projects fault that people keep linking the source code repository instead of the website.

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by pmarreck »

daveguy wrote: post #44
pmarreck wrote: post #37

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The Nixpkgs search page for it https://search.nixos.org/packages?channel=25.05&show=toybox&... shows the list of its outputs (executables): [ acpi arch ascii base32 base64 basename blkdiscard blkid blockdev bunzip2 bzcat cal cat chattr chgrp chmod chown chroot chrt chvt cksum clear cmp comm count cp cpio crc32 cut date dd deallocvt devmem df dirname dmesg dnsdomainname dos2unix du echo egrep eject env expand factor f…

Just for reference. Here is the full list of completed and in-progress commands from the toybox website: https://landley.net/toybox/status.html And here is the list of the Linux standard core commands (toybox covers more than this): https://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0/LSB-Core-gene...

ah, Awk would be nice, from the in-progress list

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by f33d5173 »

M95D wrote: post #52
f33d5173 wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That is by no means the most recent message to the list, I don't see what causes you to claim it's abandoned.

Anyone can send mails to a mailing list. It doesn't mean anything. busybox.net is down, along with their git and bugzilla, and the github mirror has last commit a year ago. The bugged tc.c was last updated 2 years ago. https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/networking/tc.... So, yes, it looks abandoned.

It might have been down when you checked, but it's working (if slow) now, and the git shows a commit as of 2 days ago. At the time of my comment I checked the mailing list and saw messages marked "patch" or somesuch as of a few months ago.

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by flyer23 »

sussmannbaka wrote: post #56
flyer23 wrote: post #54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Do a PR then to this repo and claim the glory, my point states valid until you do it

No, it’s literally the first sentence. Not the projects fault that people keep linking the source code repository instead of the website.

Github is the project page for developers, why u so stubborn? Are you dev of this thing?

Re: Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

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Post by M95D »

f33d5173 wrote: post #58
M95D wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone can send mails to a mailing list. It doesn't mean anything. busybox.net is down, along with their git and bugzilla, and the github mirror has last commit a year ago. The bugged tc.c was last updated 2 years ago. https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/master/networking/tc.... So, yes, it looks abandoned.

It might have been down when you checked, but it's working (if slow) now, and the git shows a commit as of 2 days ago. At the time of my comment I checked the mailing list and saw messages marked "patch" or somesuch as of a few months ago.

It didn't get merged.
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