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* BASH-Native: The UNIX userland system, written in BASH *
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Copyright(C)2011-2013 GPL
Project completion: ~ 3%
Latest milestone: Working CHROOT implementation. (*)
Top priority: mk{nod,dir,fifo} *help?! howto do this without external binaries*
Project goal status:
BusyBox replacement: 5%;
CoreUtils replacement: 1%;
Bashnative currently provides:
basename bash cat clear date dirname editor find gopherd login ls man
nano pico rootshell seq sh telnet true uptime vi vim whereis whoami
curl wget [1]
Underlying philosophy:
Have a 'truly open source' operating system; if all the programs are just
ascii files with the executable bit set, it becomes very easy to modify
on runtime. Main reason however is just for fun. No way would I recommend
the memory model and runtime speed of the Bourne Again SHell for large
production systems.
To provide a minimal system to be used in, for instance, chrooted
environments it can be, and already has proven so, an alternative to
bigger systems.
No compilation necessary, not ever, a text editor is all you need.
[1] disclaimer: even though the programs are similar in functionality as
their named counterparts, they are not exact copies. Furthermore some
are just links, for instance, vim, vi, nano and pico all link to the
editor program. These links are just there for usability reasons.