What is Busy Box?
Busy Box is a program that offers a lot of conventional UNIX utilities, like the greater (but more competent) GNU Basic Utilities. Busy box is intended to be functional with Linux kernel, making it compatible to work with embedded devices. With this it has been named Army Knife for Embedded Linux. The program was first introduced under the conditions General Public Licensing as free software.

The initial goal of the software written by programmer, Bruce Perens in 1996 is to build a comprehensive bootable mechanism on just one floppy that would do a couple of functions; to serve as a recovery disk and Debian distribution installer. Since then it has become standard of practice for embedded Linux procedures and Linux dissemination installers. Because every Linux executable needed many kilobytes of overhead, the use of busy box program can bind more than two hundred programs collectively and can save a lot of space.

Busy box have been managed and maintained by several programmers, Enrique Zanardi who focused on Debian boot floppies, Dave Cinege who has made many additions and development of the program, and Erik Andersen maintained busy box from 1999 to 2006. It was these time that Linux embedded marketplace boomed in the market. Today, Denys Vlasenko is busy box’s present maintainer.

Busy box can be modified to serve a division of more than two hundred applications. It can deliver generally all of the tools that are specific in One UNIX Condition, and numerous others that a consumer appreciates with Linux program. Busy box utilizes the ash shell. Common computer programs have separate binary file for each function. Busy box is a single binary program that pools together many applications.

These applications are accessible by a single box that is tagged with various names. Busy Box has its rewards from a single binary approach because it lowers the size consequences brought about by executable file format. It allows a code to be accessed by many applications without the need of a library. This method works like the Crunchgen in Free BSD. Busy Box is the simplified version of the utilities.

Distribution of the mutual code and written program with size maximization enables Busy Box to be even tinier. This is a lot smaller than a format created that has all the complete report of the account replaced. Busy Box executes quicker than other applications; but not all the time.

Programs incorporated in Busy Box can function easily by adding up their code or name to the Busy Box executable (/bin/busybox ls).

Commonly, the preferred command names are associated to Busy Box executable using hard or symbolic links however Busy Box immediately acknowledges the name and runs the most preferred command.

Where: /bin/ls to link to busy box should be: /bin/busybox ls
However, Busy Box notices that /bin/ls was linked to Busy Box and notices the command under its umbrella therefore runs it as /bin/busybox/

At the last quarter of 2007, Busy Box actively brought legal actions into US courts for infringement or violations of its license filed representing Andersen and Landley versus several companies which include big players in the industry such as JVC, Best Buy, Samsung and others. They have won the case with triple damages. No other developers including Bruce Perens (who has released a statement of his displease with some angles of the legal procedures) and long time developer Dave Cinege was not given a chance for representation on actions or party settlements.