[COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-BEGIN --- [COPY] [COPY] This copyright note is auto-generated by ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch. [COPY] Please add additional copyright information _after_ the line containing [COPY] the ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END tag. Otherwise it might get removed by [COPY] the ./scripts/Create-CopyPatch script. Do not edit this copyright text! [COPY] [COPY] ROCK Linux: rock-src/package/hannes/embutils/embutils.desc [COPY] ROCK Linux is Copyright (C) 1998 - 2006 Clifford Wolf [COPY] [COPY] This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify [COPY] it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by [COPY] the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or [COPY] (at your option) any later version. A copy of the GNU General Public [COPY] License can be found at Documentation/COPYING. [COPY] [COPY] Many people helped and are helping developing ROCK Linux. Please [COPY] have a look at http://www.rocklinux.org/ and the Documentation/TEAM [COPY] file for details. [COPY] [COPY] --- ROCK-COPYRIGHT-NOTE-END --- [I] small system utilities for embedded systems [T] Most of the typical Unix userland typically comes from either the GNU project [T] or the BSD people. Those sources are ancient and optimized for features, not [T] for small size, and now that computers are fast enough and have lots of RAM, [T] implementations became larger and larger. Features like internationalization [T] eat lots of memory and disk space. [T] [T] For embedded system and boot disks (and desktops and servers for purist Unix [T] users), you rather want small than internationalized versions of the utilities. [T] That's why I started to reimplement a few important typical userland programs [T] that I need on boot and rescue disks, making sure that you can link it against [T] diet libc to create very small statically linked binaries. [T] [T] By the way: one of the major goals for the embedded utilities is that the small [T] size is not achieved by omitting POSIX features. Unfortunately, I don't have a [T] copy of the POSIX standard, so feel free to correct me! [U] http://www.fefe.de/embutils/ [A] Felix von Leitner [M] hannes [C] base/system [F] DIETLIBC [L] GPL [S] Stable [V] 0.16 [P] X -?---5---9 179.700 [D] 1534060679 embutils-0.16.tar.bz2 ftp://ftp.fu-berlin.de/unix/linux/dietlibc/