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Replace ash by hush

I had big troubles with uClibc-compiled busybox 32bit, which segfaulted on many commands. My primary target platform is 64bit so I didn't notice the problem sooner, only now when I planed to release another test ISO/TAR versions when I tested whether it actually boots. It worked fine, but produced "Segmentation fault" message lots of times. It took me actually several hours to track down responsible busybox applet (ash).

So finally I decided to switch to hush shell, which doesn't seem to suffer the same troubles any longer, and the static binary works OK on both Slax target platforms.

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