Few of my articles about FreeBSD on ARM

Alex Samorukov samm at net-art.cz
Thu Jul 11 21:09:42 UTC 2019


On 11/07/2019 21:11, Kyle Evans wrote:
> Looks interesting, but seems to be abandoned long time ago. There is
>> also toybox, which is a busybox-like but with a better license. Busybox
>> seems to be most active and commonly used in the Linux/embedded
>> projects, thats why i started with it. I will try to submit my patches
>> to upstream after finishing them.
>>
> May I ask what gives you this impression? bsdbox is actively used in
> freebsd-wifi-build by myself and at least a couple of others. It
> doesn't see a whole lot of active commits because unlike with Busybox,
> it's a crunch setup much like rescue -- there's not a whole lot to
> bsdbox specifically other than adding another PROG from base to build
> in. There are some programs that would be nice to have, but they just
> haven't been added yet for one reason or the other- most likely being
> that they just don't get used much in the limited environments that
> it's currently used in.

Thank you for clarification. My [wrong] impression was caused by commit 
history. I will take a look on it one more time.




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