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bmarkus:
From Wikipedia, Toybox vs. Busybox:

"Toybox focuses on standards more than on compatibility with its GNU counterparts."

whatever it means.

gerald_clark:
Whose standards?

gerald_clark:
It took 5 hours to download.
It doesn't run under virtualbox.  X doesn't start.
It doesn't run on my Dell Laptop.
It runs on my T5730, but:
It is ugly.
It does not do dhcp configure of network card.
It has a wireless config utility but no wired config utility.
Setting up the wired network was a joy ( not ) because THERE IS NO PING!
The package manager offers 10 new packages.
The display installed packages displays them in some random order.
I can't find any installer program.
I see no persistence of any kind.  It appears to be a live CD only, so why the package manager?
Mount gives no output as to failure/success of a mount.
I could not format and mount a partition on my thumb drive.

nick65go:
Hi core team!

Please do no confuse a bad implementation of a good idea with a general failure.
I regularly visit http://www.landley.net/toybox/about.html

The wiki is old and focused on wrong politics goals, not on merits. Unfortunate even the toybox web site is not updated.
Rob is a lonely wolf, tinycore has some 8 developers. Do you remember him as the biggest contributor in history to busybox? He use the same atomic tools like core team here: ash, sed, grep, awk... How about his kernel tempfs patch idea  to boot in RAM? Or patch the kernel sources to do NOT need perl to compile the kernel?
I consider him at the same level to tinycore fondator Robert Shingledecker.

I am very interested in toybox and aboriginal linux. The MAIN goal is a development environment for ARM to replace android. To rebuild itself on ANY architecture (ARM included) by using Qemu and just few tools like kernel + toybox + muslib + gcc.

The main development is in git. The similarity with Tinycore is amazing. The focus in toybox/aboriginal is on base kernel+tools, versus Tinycore which is focused (mainly but not only) in tcz extensions (even those are not scripted like in archlinux AUR, most are user contributed).
sample:  toybox-x86_64    07-Jul-2014 05:13  285K , versus 500-800K busybox?

curaga:
Oh, I didn't mean anything bad about Rob; he's a very capable developer. I just find nothing wrong with GPL.

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