
Using BusyBox instead of Bash plus a bunch of other tools gives us a much more feature-full, yet smaller initrd. In particular, BusyBox contains networking commands such as ip and a DHCP client, useful for NFS boots. It's also much more convenient for rescue situations because the shell has builtin readline support and there are many more tools (including vi).
*** NixOS *** NixOS is a Linux distribution based on the purely functional package management system Nix. More information can be found at http://nixos.org/nixos and in the manual in doc/manual.
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