This Shortcut is an introduction to BusyBox, widely regarded as “The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux”. After a brief introduction, we walk you through the BusyBox configuration utility. This is used to tailor BusyBox to your particular requirements. You will next learn about the requirements for cross-compiling the BusyBox package. Then we look at BusyBox operational issues, including how it is used in an embedded system. Next you will examine the BusyBox initialization sequence, and how this departs from more traditional Linux systems. You will also study a sample initialization script.
After reading the steps for installing BusyBox on a target system, you will learn about some of the BusyBox commands and their limitations.
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