Yeah, I agree, but I am wondering how hard it would be to drop a full busybox in in replace of their stripped down one. There looks to be enough space to do it. Guess i should fire up a dev server to see what breaks.
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 9:36 PM, Roger E. Rustad, Jr <[email protected] > wrote: > Patick O'Brien wrote: > >> busybox is what VMWare ESXi (free) uses for their underlying CLI. That's >> pretty much all I know about it. >> >> Maybe its time to look more into what it can do rather than what it can't >> do. >> > > It's basically just a stripped down version of Linux. > > My guess is that it can't do very much b/c its footprint is so damn small. > > (And in VMware's case, my guess is that they don't want it to do *too* > much, as that might jeopardize ESXi other duties.) >
