What is linux busybox?
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Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BusyBox
It provides a core command set to linux, in one executable file. It is not a VM, but designed to be used for debugging purposes while booting up linux, the commands busybox provides are available as part of a recovery boot up.
You can check this by running the following command: Produces a list of all the commands within busybox.
$ busybox --list-full bin/[ bin/[[ sbin/acpid sbin/adjtimex usr/bin/ar sbin/arp usr/sbin/arping bin/ash usr/bin/awk ... ... ...
You can verify the commands by using them via the busybox binary.
$ busybox uptime 14:18:15 up 14:30, 1 users, load average: 0.14, 0.22, 0.20
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