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The Embedded Linux Conference (ELC) is the premier vendor-neutral technical conference for companies and developers using Linux in embedded products. This conference, now in its 9th year, has the largest collection of sessions dedicated exclusively to embedded Linux and embedded Linux developers. ELC is embedded Linux experts talking about solutions to your embedded Linux problems. ELC consists of 3 days of presentations, tutorials and Bird-of-a-Feather sessions. There are over 50 sessions to choose from, on a wide variety of topics.

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Thursday, February 21 • 1:45pm - 2:35pm
Toybox: Writing a new Linux Command Line from Scratch - Rob Landley, Multicelluar

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In 2003 I decided to replace twenty-two GNU packages in Linux From Scratch (everything except the compiler, kernel, and libc) with BusyBox, and then rebuild the result under itself. This didn't remotely work, so I started testing and improving BusyBox until it did, putting in so much work on BusyBox its maintainer handed the project over to me.

In 2006 I handed BusyBox off to a new maintainer and started over from scratch on a fresh implementation, Toybox. In 2011 Tim Bird (founder of CELF) convinced me to repurpose Toybox as a new BSD-Licensed Posix-2008 compliant command line for Android.

This panel explains what's in the "standard" Linux command line: drawing commands from POSIX, LSB, Android Toolbox, Linux From Scratch, and more. How to determine what should be in the base system, and how to know what to exclude, and why the "standards" aren't enough.
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Rob Landley

Hobbyist & Geek, Hobbyist
I've been doing Linux for 20 years now. I maintain toybox and mkroot. I used to maintain busybox and the linux kernel Documentation directory and website. I wrote the initramfs documentation. I started the first GPL enforcement lawsuits, and created the 0BSD license to make up for... Read More →

Thursday February 21, 2013 1:45pm - 2:35pm PST
Cyril Magnin I Parc 55 Wyndham Hotel 55 Cyril Magnin Street, San Francisco, CA 94102
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