General purpose toolbox: BusyBox

• http://www.busybox.net/

• Most Unix command line utilities within a single executable! It even includes a web server!

• Sizes less than < 500 KB (statically compiled with uClibc) or less than 1 MB (statically compiled with glibc).

• Easy to configure which features to include.

• The best choice for

• • Initramfs / initrd with complex scripts
  • Small and medium size embedded systems

• See http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-busybox/ for a nice introduction.