Porteus

Hi gang - new guy question about the default version of the vi editor on my 64 bit Porteus 4.0 ...

Is it an older busybox-vi type of thing? NVI stripped down, or what?

Not a huge deal - I love the vi editor, but I don't always feel the need for vim xzm. The old nvi did just fine for me, or compiling the latest busybox version..

Just puzzled on exactly what it is..

looks like it's busybox (/usr/bin/vi is a symlink to /mnt/live/bin/busybox ..(busybox is in the initrd.xz))
not the latest..

Wow - I didn't realize it uses a pretty recent version of Busybox. That's not too far behind the very latest, especially compared to most major distros that seemed stalled at a version from about 6-7 years ago.

I use Busybox in some other projects, so I'm stoked to see it in use with Porteus. This is day one for my use of Porteus, so I have to laugh at myself for not noticing being a fan of BB.