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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html b/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html deleted file mode 100644 index 1831346..0000000 --- a/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html +++ /dev/null @@ -1,86 +0,0 @@ -<!--#include file="header.html" --> - - -<h3>External Tiny Utilities</h3> - -This is a list of tiny utilities whose functionality is not provided by -busybox. If you have additional suggestions, please send an e-mail to our -dev mailing list. - -<br><br> - -<table> -<tr> - <th>Feature</th> - <th>Utilities</th> -</tr> - -<tr> - <td>SSH</td> - <td><a href="http://matt.ucc.asn.au/dropbear/">Dropbear</a> has both an ssh server and an ssh client that together come in around 100k. It has no external -dependencies (I.E. it does not depend on OpenSSL, using a built-in copy of -LibTomCrypt instead). It's actively maintained, with a quiet but responsive -mailing list.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> - <td>SMTP</td> - <td><a href="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/">ssmtp</a> is an extremely simple Mail Transfer Agent.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> - <td>ntp</td> - <td><a href="http://doolittle.icarus.com/ntpclient/">ntpclient</a> is a -tiny ntp client. BusyBox has rdate to set the date from a remote server, but -if you want a daemon to repeatedly adjust the clock over time, try that.</td> -</table> - -<p>In a gui environment, you'll probably want a web browser. -<a href="http://www.konqueror.org/embedded/">Konqueror Embedded</a> requires QT -(or QT Embedded), but not KDE. The <a href="http://www.dillo.org/">Dillo</a> -requires GTK+, but not Gnome. Or you can try the <a href="http://links.twibright.com/">graphical -version of links</a>.</p> - -<h3>SCRIPTING LANGUAGES</h3> -<p>Although busybox has built-in support for shell scripts, plenty of other -small scripting languages are available on the net. A few examples:</p> -<table> -<tr> -<th>language</th> -<th>description</th> -</tr> -<tr> -<td> <a href="http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0003.html">microperl</a> </td> -<td> A small standalone perl interpreter that can be built from the perl source -s via "make -f Makefile.micro". If you really feel the need for perl on an embe -dded system, this is where to start. -</tr> -<tr> - -<td><a href="http://www.lua.org/pil/">Lua</a></td> -<td>If you just want a small embedded scripting language to write <em>new</em> -code in, this Brazilian import is lightweight, fairly popular, and has -a complete book about it online.</td> -</tr> - -<tr> -<td><a href="http://www.star.le.ac.uk/%7Etjg/rc/">rc</a></td> -<td>The PLAN9 shell. Not compatible with conventional bourne shell syntax, -but fairly lightweight and small.</td> -</tr> - -</tr> -<tr> -<td><a href="http://www.forth.org/">forth</a></td> -<td>A well known language for fast and small programs, decades old but still -in use for everything from OpenBIOS to computer controlled engine timing.</td> -</tr> -</table> - -<p>For more information, you probably want to look at -<a href="http://buildroot.uclibc.org/">buildroot</a> and -<a href="http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo">TinyGentoo</a>, which -build and use tiny utilities for all sorts of things.</p> - -<!--#include file="footer.html" --> - |