BusyBox Alternatives

Alternatives list

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   Cygwin

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   Cygwin is a Unix-like environment and command-line interface for Microsoft Windows. Cygwin provides native integration of Windows-based applications, data, and other system resources with applications, software tools, and data of the Unix-like environment.

   28 Cygwin alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   Guest

   Negative comment•Jan 22, 2016

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   Busybox isnt a sort of full distro as Cygwin is.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   RemovedUser

   Positive comment•Jun 8, 2018

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   Cygwin provides all the good ol' Linux tools directly to Windows. It's better than the Ubuntu addition to Windows 10 in that it can work directly with the Windows filesystem.

   Review by a new / low-activity user.

   

   

   • Cygwin is the most popular Windows alternative to BusyBox.

   • Cygwin is the most popular Open Source & free alternative to BusyBox.

   • Cygwin is Free and Open SourceBusyBox is also Free and Open Source
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   MSYS2

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   MSYS2 is an independent rewrite of MSYS, based on modern Cygwin (POSIX compatibility layer) and MinGW-w64 with the aim of better interoperability with native Windows software.

   18 MSYS2 alternatives

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Terminal Emulator

   Origin

   • International

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   GNU Core Utilities

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   The GNU Core Utilities or coreutils is a package of GNU software containing many of the basic tools, such as cat, ls, and rm, needed for Unix-like operating systems. It is a combination of a number of earlier packages, including textutils, shellutils, and fileutils, along with...

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

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   • GNU Core Utilities is the most popular Linux alternative to BusyBox.

   • GNU Core Utilities is Free and Open SourceBusyBox is also Free and Open Source
5. Toybox (Linux command line utilities)

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   Toybox combines common Linux command line utilities together into a single BSD-licensed executable that's simple, small, fast, reasonably standards-compliant, and powerful enough to turn Android into a development environment.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Platforms

   • Linux
   • Android

   

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   Guest

   Positive comment•Dec 30, 2016

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   because it is the same thing but it works very fine on android N 7.1 while busybox dont work on android N 7.1

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   • Toybox (Linux command line utilities) is the most popular Android alternative to BusyBox.

   • Toybox (Linux command line utilities) is Free and Open SourceBusyBox is also Free and Open Source
6. gow

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   Gow (Gnu On Windows) is the lightweight alternative to Cygwin. It uses a convenient Windows installer that installs about 130 extremely useful

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Origin

   • United States

   Alerts

   • Discontinued

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

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   MinC

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   MinC has a tiny kernel emulation (285Kb) which runs on Windows. The rest of the software was taken verbatim from OpenBSD, version 6.1. This means that by installing MinC, you run OpenBSD on your Windows machine at native speed.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Compatibility Layer Tool

   Origin

   • Netherlands
   • EU

   Platforms

   • Windows

   

   

   

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   Buildroot

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   Buildroot, making embedded Linux easy. Note that this is not the official repository, but only a mirror. The official Git repository is at http://git.buildroot.net/buildroot/. Do not open issues or file pull requests here.

   Cost / License

   • Free
   • Open Source

   Application type

   • Linux Distro

   Platforms

   • Linux

   

   

   

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    RustyBox

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    RustyBox is a free-range, non-GMO fork of BusyBox written entirely in Rust. It includes all your favorite commands like ls, mount, and top, but without a single line of C code! Like BusyBox, rustybox weighs in at just under 1 megabyte and includes all the basic utilities you...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux

    

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    • RustyBox is the most popular Mac alternative to BusyBox.

    • RustyBox is Free and Open SourceBusyBox is also Free and Open Source
11. ptime

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    ptime will run any specified command and parameters, and measure the execution time (run time) in seconds, accurate to 5 millisecond or better. It is an automatic process timer, or program timer used for benchmark purposes.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Proprietary

    Platforms

    • Windows

    

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