This handy little online “Flash” presentation from K Computing provides an extremely well presented, easy-to-follow, step-by-step mini-tutorial on BusyBox — the Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux. The online mini-presentation includes information about what BusyBox is, where to get it, and how to configure and compile it.

Basically, BusyBox includes the functions of many common Linux utilities within a single small executable, thereby providing a fairly complete command environment for small or embedded systems and allowing developers to minimize hardware costs while maintaining a reasonable degree of functionality.

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