Toybox

Toybox is an implementation of some Linux command line utilities. These include ls, cp, mv, and about 150 others. The Toybox project was started in 2006, and became a BSD-licensed BusyBox alternative. Toybox is included with Android 6.0 "Marshmallow" and all later Android versions, and is also available for installation on certain other operating systems.

Functionality and aim

Toybox aims on providing a BSD licensed replacement for the GPL licensed Busybox. Toybox's major technical design goals are simplicity, smallness, speed and standard compliance. Toybox is POSIX-2008 and LSB 4.1 compatible, and doesn't focus on having every option found in GNU counterparts.

Toybox is licensed using the permissive BSD license, where BusyBox uses the copyleft GNU General Public License, which lead to different usage domains. Busybox is mostly used in the copyleft FOSS domain, while Toybox is used mostly with permissive licensed projects and by commercial companies (e.g. Google's Android which is an explicit target of toybox). Feature-wise Toybox has not reached parity with Busybox, Toybox offers currently only a subset of the Busybox functionality.

Toybox (TV series)

Toybox is an Australian children's television series first screened on the Seven Network on 14 October 2010, and since re-aired on 7TWO. The series is created by Beyond, produced and directed by Ian Munro, with 245 half-hour episodes for pre-school children.

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