Originally Posted by mr_pingu

Maemo is the OS that runs on our phones, basically it is a debian distribution which is heavily modified for small screen, still the core is the same, like apt-get and default we got a ash shell (busybox 1.18)

We can install bash by issuing apt-get install bash, but I don't fully understand bash and busybox together. I can type bash in busybox and I get a bash shell but then when I want to gain root it flips back to busybox (ash)