@nmott consider #toybox then?

So far, I don't think any OS I've ever run on my laptop has been as responsive as #AlpineLinux. Even running #Gnome, the heaviest of DEs with a buncha #systemd that has to be worked around in a #BusyBox - #OpenRC environment, it was super fast to boot and just quick to use.

I have to imagine that now that I'm moving away from Gnome, it would be even more zippy.

So I'm leaning in that direction.

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Yosild is a single shell script that builds a full, minimal Linux distribution based on BusyBox.

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BreezyBox: A BusyBox-Like Shell And Virtual Terminal For ESP32

Much like how BusyBox crams many standard Unix commands and a shell into a single executable, so too does BreezyBox provide a similar experience for the ESP32 platform. A demo implementation is als…

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#Linux su floppy nel 2026: #FLOPPINUX, kernel e #BusyBox compressi in 1,44 MB
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Linux su floppy nel 2026: FLOPPINUX, kernel e BusyBox compressi in 1,44 MB

FLOPPINUX è una distribuzione Linux moderna che entra in un floppy da 1,44 MB, mostrando in modo pratico cosa serve davvero per far funzionare Linux.

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⚠️ Unlike typical exploits, no buffer overflow or memory corruption needed - just one manipulated environment variable grants root access

🛡️ Not all Telnet implementations affected - only #GNU inet utils; proprietary versions like #Cisco and #BusyBox are safe

📊 #GreyNoise threat intelligence reports multiple exploit attempts per hour already detected in the wild

🔄 Telnet's unencrypted nature makes attacks visible to defenders monitoring plaintext traffic for "-f root" patterns

@jas

My first suspect for a #login not supporting -- would be something with a 1980s history pre-dating standard #getopt, such as Solaris, which is ironic given that #inetutils has its only -- present in conditionally compiled code targetting Solaris.

#FreeBSD, #NetBSD, and #OpenBSD login all use getopt(), pervasive in these worlds for decades, as do the util-linux login (used by Debian et al.), and the #Illumos and #BusyBox logins.

#suckless login supports -- via ARGBEGIN.

@ska @cazabon

anyone know of a repo with a shairport-sync pkg that defaults to airplay 1?

there're currently 3 variants all built on airplay 2

shairport-sync-mbedtls is supposed to be airport one according to ted's makefile but reporting on my system as airport2

#openwrt #shairport #wirelessAudio #busybox #linux

@jmorris @jti42 @etchedpixels @landley @ghul @pkal plus auditability is a big thing in #CriticalInfrastructure, with #NORAD allegedly using #BusyBox because they allegedly claim to manually audit every line of code manually so having a simple & auditable system reduces cost.

  • Not to mention having sourcecode access & reproduceable builds is sometimes mandated in these setups…