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Topic: Busybox 1.0.1 is out

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skaos

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Posted: Aug. 22 2005,14:00

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

adssse

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Posted: 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.

dare2dreamer Offline

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Posted: 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.

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cbagger01

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Posted: 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.

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Posted: 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.

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