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Posted: Mar. 06 2008,00:46 QUOTE
I'm so new I don't even know if this is in the right sub-forum.  Someone told me that DSL uses Busybox as opposed to Bash.  I read on past post's that it did and I wanted to make sure that it still uses Busybox; which would explain why some commands from my new Bash book don't work.  I'll make this easy.

yes-means we still use Busybox

no-means we now use Bash or something else.

thankyou

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Posted: Mar. 06 2008,01:24 QUOTE
Sorry, but we can't answer with "yes" or "no" if you are going to interpret it that way.  Bash and Busybox are unrelated.  Bash is a command shell, which is necessary in any nix system. DSL includes bash, ash, and ....uh...something else.

Busybox is a program that is used to replace some of the standard nix tools with a smaller package. DSL also has Busybox.

There is no "Busybox as opposed to Bash", since they are two separate tools that provide two separate functions.

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Posted: Mar. 06 2008,02:28 QUOTE
ROFL....and to think I thought I was getting somewhere.  WOW.

OK, nevermind, for now.  I can't even ask an intelligent question in response to your response.  LOL...

Thanks for the response, though.
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Posted: Mar. 06 2008,04:10 QUOTE
Perhaps you were looking at shell built-ins?  Since some of which will override binaries (such as echo I think) depending on the setup.

Or perhaps the fact that busybox can also be compiled so that it can be a shell? (iirc ash).

For DSL, there has always been the option of 'upgrading' to the coreutils to their gnu counterparts (gnu-utils) to replace busybox ones, and there are also various other shells available.

So I guess I can see how it can be confusing for you!
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Posted: Mar. 06 2008,04:37 QUOTE
*howling* stop, you're killing me.  LOL  They're coming to take me away, haha, hoho,heehee.....
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