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[Sindi Keesan <keesan AT iamjlamb.com>]

On Thu, 11 Mar 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> cce.zizkov AT volny.cz wrote:
> >
> > They reached some limitations of busybox replacements 
> > (eg. missing options while compiling programs)
> 
> There are many limitations in BL3.  It is mini-Linux.
> It does not provide the range of options of a maxi-Linux.
> 
> > and were not skilled enough to replace the commands 
> > from Slackware.
> 
> If they are not skilled enough to replace the commands
> from Slackware, then they aren't skilled enough to run
> a compiler on BasicLinux.

I think he is referring not to BL3 but to BL2 (in the past...) and I agree
that it would be very helpful to replace the busybox commands with the
larger ones when installing Bl2 to hard drive.  And add echo from
shutils.tgz (which I think was already done for BL3) so that scripts would
work properly.  I would appreciate a package to do this replacement. I
know I had problems trying to compile with some of the busybox commands
(sort) and I think other people mentioned that some programs or scripts
would not run because the busybox commands did not use the switches that 
were called for.  I did manage to replace the commands, but it took a 
while each time something failed to figure out what needed to be replaced.

> 
> > It should be made clear in the first instructions what 
> > busybox is, 

In the instructions for BL2, which is intended for installing to HD, it 
would be nice to have this information so that we will know what to 
replace, before we have problems.  

> 
> Why stop there?  Shouldn't I be making clear in the first
> instructions that BL3 is missing most of the common fonts,
> that the BL3 version of rxvt lacks many options, that the 
> BL3 version of swm lacks many options, that BL3 is missing 
> several important X libraries, that BL3 has no curses 
> capability, that BL3 has no login and no non-root users, 
> and on and on and on.  There are a zillon things missing 
> in BL3.  I would need several pages to list them all.
> 
> > and there should be an add-on that entirely replaces 
> > busybox 
> 
> You are very welcome to create such an add-on and I will
> consider adding it to the collection.

I would love to have this add-on, for BL2.  I am unlikely to attempt to 
compile anything with BL3, not enough space.

> > BL3 that is not intended to be installed on HD partition
> 
> People are welcome to put it on a HD partition (and boot
> it with lilo if they want).  However, BL3 is non-volatile
> and it already includes most of the things in the BL1 HD
> installation (and more!).  So there is probably no urgent 
> need to install it to HD.

Will the ftp program from BL1 work with BL3?  

> > Please do not trash BL 1.x! 
> 
> I don't have the space to keep a full set of BL1 stuff.
> I intend to delete it soon.  So, anybody who thinks it
> is valuable should make their own copy.

Maybe someone with disk space can volunteer to keep BL1 available online?  
Are you planning to keep the zip file but not the add-ons?  Won't the same 
add-ons work in BL3?