From b90a371a4c298ff14a8aeb60f2bd5a22ec380897 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Rob Landley
Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:10:27 +0000
Subject: Update the tinyutils page to mention microperl, LUA, buildroot,
gentoo embedded...
---
docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html | 16 +++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
(limited to 'docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html')
diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html b/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html
index 4a71323..9eff0b1 100644
--- a/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html
+++ b/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html
@@ -17,7 +17,10 @@ dev mailing list.
| SSH |
- Dropbear has both an ssh server and an ssh client. |
+ Dropbear 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. |
@@ -25,6 +28,12 @@ dev mailing list.
| ssmtp is an extremely simple MTA. |
+
+ | Microperl |
+ microperl is a small standalone perl interpreter that can be built from the perl sources via "make -f Makefile.micro". If you really feel the need for perl on an embedded system, this is where to start. (If you just want a small embedded
+scripting language to write _new_ code in,
+Lua seems popular for this purpose. |
+
In a gui environment, you'll probably want a web browser.
@@ -33,5 +42,10 @@ dev mailing list.
requires GTK+, but not Gnome. Or you can try the graphical
version of links.
+For more information, you probably want to look at
+buildroot and
+TinyGentoo, which
+build and use tiny utilities for all sorts of things.
+
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