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progrium / busybox

busybox

Busybox container with glibc+opkg

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What it is

Busybox container with glibc+opkg

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 7–Nov 14 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/14/2026, 3:56:07 PM UTC.

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Mentions over time

HN mentions by week3 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-09-25 09:46:38 UTC to 2015-01-20 16:07:11 UTC. Weeks start Monday, UTC.

012014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsSep 222014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 commentsNov 172014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 commentsJan 19

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
Sep 222014-09-22 00:00:00 UTC2014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC101
Sep 292014-09-29 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 62014-10-06 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 132014-10-13 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC000
Oct 202014-10-20 00:00:00 UTC2014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC101
Oct 272014-10-27 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 32014-11-03 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 102014-11-10 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 172014-11-17 00:00:00 UTC2014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC000
Nov 242014-11-24 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 12014-12-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 82014-12-08 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 152014-12-15 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 222014-12-22 00:00:00 UTC2014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC000
Dec 292014-12-29 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 52015-01-05 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 122015-01-12 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC000
Jan 192015-01-19 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-26 00:00:00 UTC101

What Hacker News says

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jbergstroem·Oct 20, 2014
I think this is a case where gentoo can really shine. Although tooling might not be there just yet, the linux meta distribution allows you to build a strict set of dependencies based on what you need and nothing else. There's already been pretty successful attempts at this, such as https://github.com/edannenberg/gentoo-bb (63mb custom nginx sound ok to you?) or https://github.com/wking/dockerfile. edit: To elaborate for people not very familiar with gentoo; it solves what a lot of the discussion in this thread seems to be about - having complete control of the dependency chain based on how you choose to build your software. Using nginx as an example, enabling mod_security would pull and build its own dependencies (which also can be limited based on its compiler options). Strip man pages? Done. Change libc library? No problem (if the packa
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ges support it). The work that needs to be done is expanding the toolset to a point where you say "I want this in docker, plx" and anything else (dependencies disregarded) basically goes out the window. The current attempts builds upon a small set of packages for convenience then removes "safe" stuff. When time allows, I'd like to be much more aggressive in terms of what's considered safe. :edit I'm personally also very interested in progrium's work with bundling busybox with opkg (https://github.com/progrium/busybox), but still think that docker containers should not be built from within - which why cross compiling from gentoo to create a minimal docker image is the way to go.
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