basic system utilities

I've been looking at the code for projects like toybox, beastiebox,
Elks, the Heirloom Project at Sourceforge, etc.  Think it's a really
interesting concept to use simple systems utilities that you can
understand, maintain and modify yourself instead of the standard GNU
tools.  Was curious if anyone else has rolled their own basic
operating system tools or is interested in that sort of thing.  I'm
looking into combining some of the tools under BSD, MIT and/or public
domain licenses from some of these sources and trying to come up with
a full suite of portable basic system utilities (enough to cover the
basics when building applications from source).  Saw some similar
ideas on the Arch wiki such as base2heirloom (
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Base2heirloom ) and base2plan9.

Am wondering if anyone else is interested in this sort of thing.  If
anyone knows of other resources besides the ones I mentioned (and
busybox), would appreciate if you'd post about them.  If there are any
forums or mailing lists for this type of discussion, I'd really like
to find out about them.  Would love to discuss the topic further and
possibly share code if anyone else is interested.  Anyone else besides
me think this is a cool idea?

Sincerely,
Laura
http://www.distasis.com/cpp
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