landley/toybox
toybox observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
72/100
- Activity 89
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5321
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 71
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
3138 stars · 411 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
Toybox combines many common Linux command line utilities (cp, mv, cat, etc.) into a single small, fast, BSD-licensed multicall binary that is reasonably POSIX-2008 and LSB 4.1 compliant. It ships in Android since Marshmallow and aims to provide the userland portion of a minimal self-hosting Linux system.
Use cases
- replace busybox in an embedded linux root filesystem
- build a minimal self-hosting linux system from source
- provide command line utilities on android
- create a small static binary with common unix commands
- build a reproducible minimal base system for linux from scratch
- cross-compile coreutils for arm or other embedded targets
When to choose
- you need a small, permissively licensed (0BSD) set of standard command line utilities
- you are building embedded linux systems, initramfs images, or android tooling
- you want a busybox alternative with cleaner licensing and POSIX compliance
When to avoid
- you need the full feature set of GNU coreutils and shell utilities
- you rely on GNU-specific extensions or long options of standard tools
- you need a mature, widely audited busybox replacement for production routers where busybox is the norm
Facets
cli-tool · maturity active
cli developer-tools file-system operating-systems embedded-systems developer-tools embedded cli cross-platform coreutils busybox-alternative multicall-binary posix 0bsd minimal-linux command-line linux android
5 sources
- readme: https://github.com/landley/toybox · fetched 2026-08-28 · 0ab3175ffc7b
- homepage: http://landley.net/toybox · fetched 2026-08-29 · eb5a5c11be67
- site_page: http://landley.net/toybox/about.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · 592faf70c0c1
- site_page: http://landley.net/aboriginal/about.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · d1aaef3e2eb4
- site_page: http://landley.net/toybox/faq.html · fetched 2026-08-29 · a4deaa192fc1
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| landley/toybox | main | 72 |
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