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Toybox vs BusyBox - Rob Landley, hobbyist
The Linux Foundation
Rob Landley compares Toybox and BusyBox and surveys options for embedded system command-line tools, including GNU. He also tells the story of leaving BusyBox, Toybox becoming Android's command line, and licensing.
HN recommends it for the toybox intro and for Landley's candid account of software licensing and why he created the 0BSD license.
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