Busybox 1.0.1 is out

Forum: DSL Ideas and Suggestions
Topic: Busybox 1.0.1 is out
started by: skaos

Posted by skaos on Aug. 22 2005,14:00

Busybox 1.0.1 is out, < http://www.busybox.net/. > Something to include in DSL 1.5?

Posted by adssse on Aug. 22 2005,14:18

Might be nice to have the newest version, it looks like quite a few bugs were fixed. I wonder if it is as friendly with older systems as the previous version or if there would be any drawbacks of the new one.

Posted by dare2dreamer on Aug. 22 2005,19:46

it would also be nice if the version DSL uses was compiled to support a few more of the built-in commands, like nc (netcat) for example.

Posted by cbagger01 on Aug. 22 2005,22:04

netcat is an excellent way to pipe a dd command over the network in order to clone a PC hard drive to a second computer.

However, I wouldn't trust my data to a Busybox version of nc unless I do a md5sum on the whole hard drive as a double-check.

Posted by dare2dreamer on Aug. 23 2005,08:48

I hear ya.

Netcat was just one of the examples that came to mind when I was reading up on the available applications built into busybox. Point is, it seems like damnsmall is only using a very narrow subset of busybox's potential, and from what I was reading a fully tricked out compile isn't all that much larger.