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@burnoutqueen the problem is that #enforcing #copyleft doesn't get you a single line of code improvements.
In an ideal world it would, but we all know that's not the case.
- Consider #BSD-licensed alternatives a competiton, which is more likely to get contributions back (again, Rob Landley can most likely attest to that) from corporations and see it as a motivation for copyleft-licensed projects to step up their game!
Uff! 
This stuff is good to know:
“When You Deleted /lib On Linux While Still Connected Via SSH” [2022], Yohanes Nugroho (https://tinyhack.com/2022/09/16/when-you-deleted-lib-on-linux-while-still-connected-via-ssh/).
Via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43444160
On Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/zmgtvx/when_you_deleted_lib_on_linux_while_still
Tinyhack.com · When you deleted /lib on Linux while still connected via sshLet's first not talk about why this can happen, but deleting /lib, /usr/lib, or some other essential runtime files happens quite a lot (as you can see: here, here, here, and here). In this post, I will only discuss what happens when you delete /lib on Linux and how to recover from that.
The easy
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@cstross isn't even joking, I think.
Both BusyBox and ToyBox actually do have an init program, a getty program, and a login program.
BusyBox also has the Almquist shell. ToyBox has a Landley shell. BusyBox even has runit.
It is possible to have a system where even if you are doing various things in a shell you're just invoking the same program image over and over, using all of the same code that is there in process #1.
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@notjustbikes precisely!
Only #OpenSource & #OpenStandards can yield #MultiVendor & #MultiProvider systems necessary to prevent #monopolies and #oligopolies and enshure #ITsec, #InfoSec, #OpSec & #ComSec, thus being able to comply with #NatSec & #IntlSec demands.
Guess why #NORAD runs #BusyBox / #Linux?
- Because they demand every single line of code to be audited MANUALLY!
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@cas TBH, this actually makes sense in some #CriticalInfrastructure when someone wants to finally replace some #MOS6502-based system and chug a low-end SBC in...
And given it targets #BusyBox, I'd not be surprised if #NORAD is already looking at the code to see if they can use it...
Ubuntu in the virtual machine cannot start properly #busybox
Ask UbuntuUbuntu in the virtual machine cannot start properlyit was working fine before, but now it's stuck at a BusyBox black screen. Using fsck -y /dev/sda2 doesn't work.
BusyBox v1.36.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.36.1-6ubuntu3.1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a ...
Tried to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, got trapped in "BusyBox built-in shell (ash)" #boot #doreleaseupgrade #initramfs #busybox
Ask UbuntuTried to upgrade from Ubuntu 20.04 to 22.04, got trapped in "BusyBox built-in shell (ash)"Tried to upgrade Ubuntu from 20.04 to 22.04 using sudo do-release-upgrade. Every time I reboot, I was in:
BusyBox v1.20.1 (Ubuntu 1:1.17.1-10ubuntu1) built-in shell (ash)
Enter 'help' for a list of...
https://www.ott.net/buildroot-initramfs/ - new post on how to use #buildroot to build a custom #initramfs
www.ott.netBuilding a custom initramfs with buildroot
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GOOOOD NEWS EVERYONE! (/ref)
#Bim (although not in #Kuroko fully but still uses Kuroko to an extent) and Kuroko itself work in #Musl on a bare kernel! I'm only using #BusyBox and util-linux (which are the only non-Kuroko tools)! Everything including the #Linux kernel is compiled to Musl.
I'm calling this Lunaris. Yes I reuse names from failed projects of mine a lot. This is very volatile. One wrong move and I need to remake the rootfs or the disk image or packages... I hate it.
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@AugierLe42e I assume that port is fixed to a specific USB Hub / Controller / Port and the button is similarly linked to some GPIO / I²C / PS/2 port...
- What you can do is check
lsusbfor #USB devices and see if the specific port in question has a USB mass storage device or SATA bridge chip attached to it when said button is pressed.
If #QNAP used #Linux they should've provided those drivers / scripts as part of their #GPLv2 obligations to buyers/owners of said #NAS boxes.
- Just don't expect any of that code to be useable, as @landley can attest from the #BusyBox license enforcement…
Either way if you can reliably identify the port & detect the button presses that should be sufficient to build like a #bash or #python script to basically detect the drive, mount it and cp -r /dev/$DRIVE/ /home/copied_drives/$LABEL/
- It may need some fiddling and will most likely only work reliably on unencrypted drives with ext2-ext4, btrfs, ntfs, fat32, exfat filesystems...
Pretty shure you'll have to tweak a bit unless you want to use /dev/by-uuid/$UUID and the UUIDs of the partitions as name...
With all the installations on #GNU/#Linux (servers, vms, desktop, ... ), #BSD and #Unix systems, #MacOS, #Microsoft #Windows and WLS) I feel comfortable to claim there or way more than 1 billion installations of Vi*; often without people knowing about it.
Thank you Bram Moolenaar, Christian Brabandt, the whole #Vim community, and all the people from projects like #NeoVIM, #Nvi, #Busybox #Vi, who develop and maintain their #vim flavour.
https://k7r.eu/thank-you-for-the-editor-of-the-beast/ #ilovefs
Oof, busybox's `wget` doesn't want to use certificates, so no https fetching out of the box.
Off in the weeds today looking at basing a docker image on busybox and dropbear.
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@reallylazybear
#Alpine has a massive community behind it thanks to its usage in #Docker and other #container based projects. That would be my go to.
Hey #linux community, I wanna play around with more distros and stuff. Particularly ones that isn't #systemd but might use #busybox. Right now I have #voidlinux & #devuan in my head.
I mean I could just go to #distrowatch & use filters but I like hearing people's personal experience about these distros and I'll admit I'm really lazy browsing forums and discussions right now. 
I've already tried #gentoo, #alpine, and #slackware. Also no #linuxfromscratch #lfs. That's for waay later taters.
I'm workin' on a project that uses #busybox and the #linux kernel. I want to create a tiny OS for a uni course. Anyone willin' to help a poor fella out?
Source is at GitHub.com/zstg/micros, I'll make the repo public in a day or two.
