I say android is the most common linux(not just server or desktop), but that's a pretty wild guess. On Jun 3, 2011 11:32 AM, kclug-request@kclug.org wrote:
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Android is widely deployed. But as wide as busybox?
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 12:34, Richard Allen rsaxvc@gmail.com wrote:
I say android is the most common linux(not just server or desktop), but that's a pretty wild guess.
Ubuntu is widely deployed. But as wide as Apache?
Android is a Linux distro. Busybox is a program used by many "small" distros to save on disk space by combining many commands into a single binary, which will then perform the task appropriate to the name under which it is invoked. For distros that operate out of ramdisks, busybox may be stored on the bootable media as "ln", which can then be used in init scripts to link it to the other names by which it will be called.
http://www.busybox.net/FAQ.html#build_system
Busybox is a package that replaces a dozen standard packages, but it is not by itself a complete bootable system.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 8:22 PM, Billy Crook billycrook@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 6:53 PM, Monty J. Harder mjharder@gmail.com wrote:
I think the wider point is that a Linux kernel + busybox is perhaps more widely deployed than Android. Is it a distribution? No. But it's a "Linux operating system environment."
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