BusyBox

4 engineers on Hacker News describe using BusyBox first-hand: 0 endorse it, 0 regret it, 1 are mixed.

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4first-hand users
3in production
endorse 0mixed 1regret 0uses, no opinion

“such as busted busybox/iptables support. Compiling these two packages against amd64 allow them to run, which is totally fine.”

mixed · production · 1 yr · KyleSanderson · 2013-10-10 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“At my work we use a ton of embedded devices that don't use GNU but instead use things like busybox.”

neutral · production · rowanG077 · 2022-12-23 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“the required minimal installation is made on a tmpfs partition which amounts to a trivial amount for hosting busybox and some conf files in /etc.”

neutral · production · itchyouch · 2014-11-11 · source ↗ · wrong label?

“using 3.12 + uClibc + BusyBox”

neutral · personal · TheMakeA · 2013-11-13 · source ↗ · wrong label?