OLPC 'upstream'

Alan Cox alan at redhat.com
Wed Feb 8 21:41:54 UTC 2006


On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 02:37:23PM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> > Does this laptop really need a full bash?  
> Does this laptop really need a shell?

The busybox and shell setup on the Nokia 770 rather proves the value of
a shell I think. You don't need it, you can't even get at it without
adding packages but it makes it possible to do many things.

Shells are cheap (40-50K) unless you let the FSF near them




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