BusyBox-ng

A modern, minimalist, and highly optimized fork of the original BusyBox project.

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"Hello everyone, this is my mini project! I removed utilities that I personally didn't need and added some utilities that I lacked. This fork is heavily stripped down to contain only the most essential tools, making it perfect for lightweight embedded systems, containers, and minimal Linux distributions." — qvkap

New Features & Enhancements

We've brought BusyBox into the modern era while keeping it dependency-free and lightning fast:

• Native HTTP/2 Support: Complete, dependency-free HTTP/2 protocol implementation (ALPN, HPACK, Flow Control). curl and wget now natively support multiplexed HTTP/2 over HTTPS!
• Zstandard (zstd) Integration: Added streaming unzstd decompression, seamlessly integrating .ko.zst kernel module loading and zstdcat.
• Modutils Refactored: Removed ancient 2.4 kernel cruft, modernized insmod, modprobe, and depmod for modern Linux setups.
• Extreme Size Optimization: Built statically with aggressive compiler flags (-Os, -ffunction-sections, --gc-sections). The entire statically linked binary weighs around 2.3 MB.
• Zero Dependencies: Fully static compilation (CONFIG_STATIC=y), requiring no external libraries (like glibc or musl) to run on a target system.
• 100% GNU Coreutils Compatibility: All coreutils applets have been maximized with full POSIX and GNU feature-flags enabled.
• Enhanced vim Applet: The builtin vi editor is aliased to vim and configured with maximum features (undo, regex search, yank marks, colon commands).

Usage

Since this is a multi-call binary, you can use it just like the original BusyBox:

# Blazing fast HTTP/2 requests right out of the box
./busybox curl -s https://example.com
./busybox wget -q -O- https://example.com

# Extract modern zstd archives
./busybox unzstd archive.tar.zst

Or install the symlinks to use the commands natively on your system:

./busybox --install -s /bin

Authorship

Fork created and passionately maintained by qvkap.

Licensed under GPLv2. See the source distribution for detailed copyright notices.