Busybox 1.37 is tiny but capable, the way we like Linux tools to be
Quoting: Busybox 1.37 is out – tiny but capable —
Busybox is tiny, unobtrusive, and runs quite a lot of routers and other key bits of the internet – somewhat like Linux itself used to be.
The Busybox developers have released version 1.37.0, with some 50 changes. It's now Year 2038-ready, its implementation of the late Dave Mills's NTP is Year 2036-safe, and it includes a whole new feature (a version of the getfattr command).
This is the project's first new release in more than a year and a half; aside from a small fix for a single bug, the last new release, version 1.36, was at the start of 2023. As regular readers might have noticed, we appreciate slow-moving development around these parts.
Its developers call Busybox the "Swiss Army knife" of embedded Linux, because in one relatively small tool, it implements not just a Unix-style shell, but also about 300 different commands that are normally external programs in their own right. As a result, it's often found inside devices that use Linux in very resource-constrained environments, such as consumer firewall/routers.