Re: KCLUG Digest, Vol 83, Issue 1

"Christofer C. Bell" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.user-groups.linux.kansascity
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Monty J. Harder <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Ubuntu is widely deployed.  But as wide as Apache?
>
> Android is a Linux distro. Busybox is a program used by many "small" distros
> to save on disk space by combining many commands into a single binary, which
> will then perform the task appropriate to the name under which it is
> invoked.  For distros that operate out of ramdisks, busybox may be stored on
> the bootable media as "ln", which can then be used in init scripts to link
> it to the other names by which it will be called.
>
> http://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html#build_system
>>
>> Busybox is a package that replaces a dozen standard packages, but it is
>> not by itself a complete bootable system.

I think the wider point is that a Linux kernel + busybox is perhaps
more widely deployed than Android.  Is it a distribution?  No.  But
it's a "Linux operating system environment."

-- 
Chris
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