Re: KCLUG Digest, Vol 83, Issue 1
"Christofer C. Bell" <[email protected]>
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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 _______________________________________________ KCLUG mailing list [email protected] http://kclug.org/mailman/listinfo/kclug