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Swiss army knife of Linux

BusyBox - The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux

BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities

Here is how to launch a simple web server using busybox on port 8080, just run

busybox httpd -f -p 8080

https://manpages.ubuntu.com/manpages/trusty/man1/busybox.1.html#:~:text=BusyBox%20combines%20tiny%20versions%20of,%2C%20util%2Dlinux%2C%20etc. refer for more info

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Volker Schukai

i didn't know the httpd feature of busybox yet. cool. how performant is that?