Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line

Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by opan on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:08PM (#45485277)

IIRC this was made to solve a licensing issue with busybox (toybox being more permissive) and be included with Android. As a fan of copyleft, initially the idea annoyed me, but I eventually came to the conclusion that if it was the only way to include better tools in a particular OS out of the box, it was probably fine.

I recall busybox being often used for gpl enforcement, so I wonder now how widespread toybox is by various companies hoping to avoid that. Do modern Smart TVs and such use it?

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by dgl on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:57PM (#45485643)

The license page and linked blog posts mentions this: https://landley.net/toybox/license.html

I like the 0BSD license (see my https://xn--gba.st), AWS also uses the semantically equivalent MIT-0 license for code samples, etc.

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by GalaxyNova on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:14PM (#45485330)

I believe most smart TVs use Android as the base, so I would think yes.

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by ChocolateGod on Sunday October 05, 2025 @05:22PM (#45485405)

I think Samsung still use Tizen (still Linux, seems to use Toybox) and LG uses WebOS (Linux again, not sure if it uses Toybox).

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by 6SixTy on Sunday October 05, 2025 @06:33PM (#45485897)

Just looked through my TV, webOS uses Busybox.

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by Imustaskforhelp on Monday October 06, 2025 @12:32AM (#45487658)

please teach me how to do this, I have a webos lg tv which is literally not being used because my father used to watch youtube but then youtube almost stopped working on it and there are no more updates and I tried to root it but i couldn't and I just want to use it instead of it being a junk.

Any guide on helping me prevent some e-waste at my home. I would prefer to have complete linux access of my lgtv and use something like tiny core linux on my webos tv or something, is something like this possible or?

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by numpad0 on Monday October 06, 2025 @03:04AM (#45488418)

Normally how you realize your TV runs busybox is by looking at the last parts of the manual, not by just casually sshing into it and running busybox --version.

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by KlutzySofa on Monday October 06, 2025 @11:27AM (#45492428)

It is however a lot easier to SSH into it.

root@lgwebostv:~# busybox

BusyBox v1.29.2 (2024-06-12 00:33:13 UTC) multi-call binary.

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by planb on Monday October 06, 2025 @01:34AM (#45487955)

Try https://cani.rootmy.tv/

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by BoredPositron on Monday October 06, 2025 @07:12AM (#45490106)

Use it with a setup box?

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by Imustaskforhelp on Monday October 06, 2025 @08:59AM (#45490898)

my parents bought the "smart" tv a decade ago to switch away from setup box

It was kinda expensive at the time, its wild of sorts how cheap of sorts TV's have become right now but still we bought it and its just e-waste right now.

I am thinking of setting up a raspberry pi but I am more interested in learning the inner details or how to do things preferably without raspberry pi as well

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Re:Toybox: All-in-one Linux command line by BoredPositron on Tuesday October 07, 2025 @01:39AM (#45499713)

It's not e-waste. Your ignorance for the easy solution makes it e-waste. There is nothing to learn from bad embedded systems.

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