From b90a371a4c298ff14a8aeb60f2bd5a22ec380897 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rob Landley Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:10:27 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update the tinyutils page to mention microperl, LUA, buildroot, gentoo embedded... --- docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html | 16 +++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html b/docs/busybox.net/tinyutils.html index 4a71323f0..9eff0b1a7 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.

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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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