[Toybox] Toybox / mkroot init

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Tue Feb 17 00:37:32 PST 2026


On 2/14/26 16:33, Roberto A. Foglietta wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have integrated and customised the mkroot init file here:
> 
> - https://github.com/robang74/bare-minimal-linux-system/blob/main/update/init
> 
> I wish to know which was the license in original, BSD (as toybox), MIT? etc.

0BSD like the rest of toybox.

> In the meantime, I noticed that the kernel included in the X86_64
> package is a 6.17.0 version.
>> Just for my own knowledge (I search for LTS in the m-list archives but
> found Ubuntu):
> 
> - why 6.17 instead of 6.12 which is a Long Term Support ?

Toybox releases generally use the kernel that was current at the time of 
the toybox release: toybox 0.8.13 came out October 14 and linux 6.18 
came out december 1, a month and a half later.

> Finally, one more question because I saw musl in toybox:
> 
> - What's about https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan ?

Are you trolling, or are you serious?

Rob


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