Busybox is a multicall binary that includes many standard system tools in a reduced form, resulting in a dramatic reduction of size.
- bb, only 68K, would ocuppy around 600K with standard tools.
- A "hello world" function increases busybox only by 161 bytes!
- Busybox only requires a small set of libs for operation.
- Simple configurability allows selection of tools that exactly match your needs.
Busybox was designed and written by Eric B. Anderson and Dave Cinege.