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17 mentions on Hacker News by 14 people: 2 stories, 15 comments · first 2017-03-07 · latest 2026-05-13

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Busybox is... a toybox[0] with a more restrictive license. 0. https://github.com/landley/toybox
comment by snvzz · 2026-05-13 · in What Is BusyBox?
toybox/library; 0BSD, C: https://github.com/landley/toybox/tree/master/lib src/uucore/src/lib/features, findutils, diffutils; MIT, Rust: https://github.com/uutils/coreutils/tree/main/src/uucore/src...
comment by westurner · 2025-10-06 · in Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line
…does this for most common shell commands. Toybox and busybox are examples of such implementations. https://github.com/landley/toybox https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox
comment by avidiax · 2024-09-03 · in Why bother with argv[0]?
The successor project uses musl: https://github.com/landley/toybox/tree/master/mkroot
comment by alexhutcheson · 2024-05-01 · in Aboriginal Linux
…This project was merged into toybox in 2020. See the "mkroot" directory in https://github.com/landley/toybox https://github.com/landley/toybox
comment by binarycrusader · 2024-05-01 · in Aboriginal Linux
Indeed. https://github.com/landley/toybox would be a better link to discuss. It's an interesting project. I wasn't aware it also built minimal Linux images. It seems like a great base for a new distro, just bring your own package manager.…
comment by imiric · 2024-05-01 · in Aboriginal Linux
Lazyweb, since searching for "Toybox" wasn't helpful: https://github.com/landley/toybox#readme (although "toybox shell" did help) And it's BSD Zero Clause, for those who are curious: https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/0.8.8/LICENSE
comment by mdaniel · 2023-01-04 · in BusyBox 1.36.0
This is now ToyBox https://github.com/landley/toybox FAQ: https://github.com/landley/toybox
comment by belter · 2021-06-26 · in Building the Simplest Possible Linux System (2017)
…Toybox project[2], so hopefully the need to target BusyBox ash will go away in the near future. [1] https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/pending/s ... [2] http://landley.net/toybox/about.html
comment by alexhutcheson · 2020-12-21 · in Bash 5.1
…vs. Busybox ash for embedded environments. We'll be able to write scripts that use arrays! [1] https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/pending/s... [2] http://landley.net/toybox/about.html
comment by alexhutcheson · 2020-12-15 · in Minimal safe Bash script template
…similar collection of command-line utilities, but with a BSD license. It's still in C, though. [1] https://github.com/landley/toybox
comment by alexhutcheson · 2019-11-14 · in Show HN: RustyBox – a Busybox fork written in Rust
…7.1.2 (toybox --version 0.7.1-3125af0e06f4-android) mktemp doesn't recognize the -t option ( https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/0.7.1/toys/lsb/mktemp... ). So it seems to be fixed in newer versions, but I am sure there will be some…
comment by arendtio · 2019-07-16 · in How to write idempotent Bash scripts
Toybox by Landley( https://github.com/landley/toybox ) is probably the best example of a modern c implementation I have ever seen. Surprised no one has mentioned it yet.
comment by rileyraver57 · 2018-09-21 · in Ask HN: What open source project, in your opinion, has the highest code quality?
…and GNU tools are notoriously heavyweight. For contrast, here is Toybox implementation of rm: https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/posix/rm.... busybox: https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/coreutils/rm.c…
comment by zokier · 2018-04-24 · in Unraveling rm: what happens when you run it?
…Busybox source: https://github.com/mirror/busybox/blob/f88e3bfa8ded4f1c7e7d2... Toybox source: https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/posix/tim... This would have been a lot easier if I'd known GitHub has a `filename:` search
comment by voltagex_ · 2017-03-07 · in /usr/bin/time: not the command you think you know