Conversation

Notices

1. Embed this notice
   翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 19:46:23 JST 翠星石

   in reply to

   • Narada
   @narada BusyBox is intended for crappy embedded devices like routers, which are made with like 32MiB of flash and 128MB of RAM instead of a gig of RAM and flash (which costs the same at scale) - on such little RAM and storage, only a few GNU programs can be installed and run at the same time.
   
   BusyBox is designed to be a single binary containing all standard utilities that weighs a few MiB and use little RAM, but all of the utilities suck and lack the features that the GNU versions have.
   
   
   It seems soapbox's developers aren't into the freedom of installing GNU software (utilities and other kinds), so they install BusyBox instead and use inferior implementations of utility software.
   • Embed this notice
     Narada (narada@foxgirl.lol)'s status on Monday, 12-Feb-2024 19:46:24 JST Narada

     • Avatar of Chaos

     I never really got the point of busybox. Why install it if you just need a utility from it like unzip or something? Always weirded me out about the Soapbox install