▲ 797 ▼ This guy’s a real Upstart if you ask me (thelemmy.club) submitted 3 weeks ago by cannedtuna@lemmy.world to c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world 184 comments fedilink hide all child comments
[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 child) Busybox is literally just a bundle. That's its whole purpose. It doesn't reimplement anything. permalink fedilink source parent hideshow 2 child comments replies: [–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* Some quick research says that it is indeed a re-implementation. The first line of the wikipedia, says: BusyBox is an implementation of many Unix commands in a single executable file. You can download the source code yourself to verify. And if you've actually used Alpine Linux before you would have also noticed that the commands provided by busybox have only a subset of the options provided by their GNU coreutils counterparts. Please do your research before so confidently correcting other people. permalink fedilink source parent
[–] hirihit640@sh.itjust.works 4 points 3 weeks ago* Some quick research says that it is indeed a re-implementation. The first line of the wikipedia, says: BusyBox is an implementation of many Unix commands in a single executable file. You can download the source code yourself to verify. And if you've actually used Alpine Linux before you would have also noticed that the commands provided by busybox have only a subset of the options provided by their GNU coreutils counterparts. Please do your research before so confidently correcting other people. permalink fedilink source parent
