BusyBox – Small is amazing !
February 26, 2008
Linux is versatile. Everything is configurable as well as optimizable. This makes ease-ability of compiling linux in user’s own flavor, which can reduce its size, dramatically. But, the size cannot be as small as 1~ MB. Yes, thats right, I am talking about BusyBox, which originally was designed to fit in a 1.4MB floppy. It was desgined as a rescue disk for Debian, but now a days its being shipped as an OS for routers nearly of all newer brands – like IBM, HP, Asus and mainly the DLink and even its in a few tablet cells or PCs like Nokia 770. Being an opensource project, in the past few years, its use in network industry is increased! So small in size, it doesn’t offer excessive linux functionality but, still, it has more than 200 applications.
Amazing foo !!
Here’s my DLink’s 2540Ts snap.
