RustyBox Alternatives

RustyBox is described as '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' and is an app in the os & utilities category. There are seven alternatives to RustyBox for a variety of platforms, including Windows, Linux, Android, Android Tablet and BSD apps. The best RustyBox alternative is Cygwin, which is both free and Open Source. Other great apps like RustyBox are BusyBox, MSYS2, GNU Core Utilities and gow.

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  1. Cygwin icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
    • Cygwin is the most popular Windows alternative to RustyBox.

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

    • Cygwin is Free and Open SourceRustyBox is also Free and Open Source
  2. BusyBox icon
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    Single compact binary offering essential Unix utilities for embedded, rescue, and custom Linux builds, supporting Android, FreeBSD, and devices with limited memory and storage. Includes networking, shell, and file handling tools for streamlined deployment.

    9 BusyBox alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Linux
    • Android
    • BSD
    • FreeBSD
    • Android Tablet
     
    • BusyBox is the most popular Android, Mac, Linux & Android Tablet alternative to RustyBox.

    • BusyBox is Free and Open SourceRustyBox is also Free and Open Source
  3. MSYS2 icon
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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

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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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    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

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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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

    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Android
     
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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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