As a network engineer, why hasn't the CLI telnet client been included? Other basic tools the I expect on a Linux/UNIX system like wget, ssh and dig would be very helpful. Other very small, low level tools like tcptrace/tcptraceroute and whois wouldn't be out of line. They've had open source, ubiquitous use for years (and in some case decades), there's no reason to not make them available, at least in a re-engineered work-alike form. The lack of text processing tools, other than a very stripped down implementation of grep, is a bit annoying, but the reduction of network tools, which really should have been expended hurts.

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