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diff --git a/www/about.html b/www/about.html index 95aae25f..ace499f6 100755 --- a/www/about.html +++ b/www/about.html @@ -1,31 +1,22 @@ <!--#include file="header.html" --> -<h1>Answers to <a href="#what">What</a>, <a href="#why">Why</a>, -<a href="#who">Who</a>, <a href="#how">How</a>, <a href="#when">when</a></h1> - <h2><a name="what" />What is ToyBox?</h2> -<p>Toybox provides simple, small, fast, and correct implementations of all the -standard Linux command line utilities.</p> - -<p>Toybox should scale from tiny embedded systems up to general purpose -development environments. We test using it on Android phones in place of -Toolbox, and the <a href=/aboriginal>Aboriginal Linux</a> project is working -to get a complete Linux system to rebuild itself from source code using -toybox.</p> - -<p>Toybox is released under what's been nicknamed a <a href=license.html>"zero -clause BSD" license</a>, essentially public domain with a liability -disclaimer.</p> +<p>Toybox combines the most common Linux command line utilities together into +a single <a href=license.html>BSD-licensed</a> executable. It's simple, small, fast, and reasonably +standards-compliant (<a href=http://opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799>POSIX-2008</a> and <a href=http://refspecs.linuxfoundation.org/LSB_4.1.0>LSB 4.1</a>).</p> -<p>Toybox can be built as a single multicall ("swiss army knife") executable, -or each command can be built as a traditional independent executable.</p> +<p>Toybox's 1.0 release goal is to turn generic Android into a +development environment capable of compiling <a href=http://www.linuxfromscratch.org>Linux From Scratch</a>. +A tiny system <a href=/aboriginal>built from</a> just toybox, linux, <a href=http://musl-libc.org>a C library</a>, and a C compiler (such as LLVM or +gcc 4.2.1+binutils 2.17) should be +able to rebuild itself from source code without needing any other packages.</p> <b><h2><a name="status" />What commands are implemented in Toybox?</h2></b> <p>The current list of commands implemented by toybox is on the <a href=status.html>status page</a>, which is updated each release. -There is also <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> of planned commands for the +There is also <a href=roadmap.html>roadmap</a> listing all planned commands for the 1.0 release.</p> <p>In general, configuring toybox for "defconfig" enables all the commands |