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4 <h3>External Tiny Utilities</h3>
6 This is a list of tiny utilities whose functionality is not provided by
7 busybox. If you have additional suggestions, please send an e-mail to our
20 <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
21 dependencies (I.E. it does not depend on OpenSSL, using a built-in copy of
22 LibTomCrypt instead). It's actively maintained, with a quiet but responsive
28 <td><a href="ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/s/ssmtp/">ssmtp</a> is an extremely simple Mail Transfer Agent.</td>
33 <td><a href="http://doolittle.icarus.com/ntpclient/">ntpclient</a> is a
34 tiny ntp client. BusyBox has rdate to set the date from a remote server, but
35 if you want a daemon to repeatedly adjust the clock over time, try that.</td>
38 <p>In a gui environment, you'll probably want a web browser.
39 <a href="http://www.konqueror.org/embedded/">Konqueror Embedded</a> requires QT
40 (or QT Embedded), but not KDE. The <a href="http://www.dillo.org/">Dillo</a>
41 requires GTK+, but not Gnome. Or you can try the <a href="http://links.twibright.com/">graphical
42 version of links</a>.</p>
44 <h3>SCRIPTING LANGUAGES</h3>
45 <p>Although busybox has built-in support for shell scripts, plenty of other
46 small scripting languages are available on the net. A few examples:</p>
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53 <td> <a href=http://www.foo.be/docs/tpj/issues/vol5_3/tpj0503-0003.html>microperl</a> </td>
54 <td> A small standalone perl interpreter that can be built from the perl source
55 s via "make -f Makefile.micro". If you really feel the need for perl on an embe
56 dded system, this is where to start.
60 <td><a href=http://www.lua.org/pil/>Lua</a></td>
61 <td>If you just want a small embedded scripting language to write <em>new</en>
62 code in, this Brazilian import is lightweight, fairly popular, and has
63 a complete book about it online.</td>
67 <td><a href= http://www.star.le.ac.uk/%7Etjg/rc/>rc</a></td>
68 <td>The PLAN9 shell. Not compatible with conventional bourne shell syntax,
69 but fairly lightweight and small.</td>
74 <td><a href=http://www.forth.org>forth</a></td>
75 <td>A well known language for fast and small programs, decades old but still
76 in use for everything from OpenBIOS to computer controlled engine timing.</td>
80 <p>For more information, you probably want to look at
81 <a href=http://buildroot.uclibc.org>buildroot</a> and
82 <a href=http://gentoo-wiki.com/TinyGentoo>TinyGentoo</a>, which
83 build and use tiny utilities for all sorts of things.</p>
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