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August 25, 2025 at 6:14 am #184400
PDP-8
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    BTW, anyone wanting to play along, and compile a large static build. I saw some runit stuff in there too, but I didn’t play with that.

    Once you download the source (most recent “snapshots” available too!)

    1) Use synaptic or apt install “build-essentials“. Then as root:

    tar -xvf busybox-1.37.0.tar.bz2

    2) CD into the new directory holding busybox source. Then:

    make defconfig

make clean && make LDFLAGS=-static

    NOTE: There is no space between = (equals) and – (dash)

    You don’t have to INSTALL. You can just copy your new busybox executable somewhere in a test directory to play. They are root, so perhaps change them to your own user:

    chown demo busybox
chgrp demo busybox

    The 1.37.0 version has it’s TOP capable of showing all cores by pressing the #1 key. Nice.

    This is not meant to be comprehensive, but just enough to whet your whistle.

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