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30 <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td>
33 <a href="/"><img src="images/busybox1.png" alt="BusyBox"
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35 <!-- Begin Introduction section -->
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41 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= "intro"><big>
42 <b>The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</b>
47 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
48 BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities
49 into a single small executable. It provides minimalist
50 replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU
51 fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally
52 have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins;
53 however, the options that are included provide the expected
54 functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
55 BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any
56 small or embedded system.
58 <p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and
59 limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular
60 so you can easily include or exclude commands (or
61 features) at compile time. This makes it easy to
62 customize your embedded systems. To create a working
63 system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel.</p>
65 <p>BusyBox is maintained by <a href=
66 "http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik
67 Andersen</a>, and licensed under the <a href=
68 "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL
69 PUBLIC LICENSE</a>.</p>
73 <p>Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of
74 BusyBox is now available <a href=
75 "screenshot.html">right here</a>.</p>
77 <h3>Mailing List Information</h3>
78 BusyBox now has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing
80 To subscribe, go and visit <a href=
81 "/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
83 <!-- Begin Latest News section -->
88 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
89 "news"><big><b>Latest News</b></big></a></td>
93 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
97 <li><b>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b>
99 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
100 now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
101 for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
102 the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
103 This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
104 development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
105 hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
108 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
109 the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
115 <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b>
117 <p>Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
118 the fine folks at <a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a>
119 who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
120 uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
121 <a href= "http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/">http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/</a>
123 <a href= "http://busybox.csservers.de/">http://busybox.csservers.de/</a>
124 in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
125 accessible for everyone!
129 <li><b>Old News</b><br>
130 For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the
131 old news page</a>.</li>
137 <!-- Begin Sponsors section -->
139 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
140 "sponsors"><big><b>Sponsors</b></big></a></td>
144 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
145 Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
146 support! They have provided money for equipment and
147 bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
148 consider these fine companies!
152 <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
153 Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
156 <li><a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a><br>
157 Web hosting (currently hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org)
160 <li><a href="http://www.lineo.com">Lineo</a><br>
161 Embedded Linux development and services.
164 <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>
165 Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
169 Several individuals have also contributed. If you have
170 already contributed and would like your name added
171 here, just let me know. If you would like to be a
172 BusyBox sponsor, email <a href=
173 "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
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180 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
181 "download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td>
185 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
187 <li>Source for the latest release can always be
188 downloaded from <a href=
189 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</li>
191 <li>A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is
192 available as a bzip2ed tarball
193 <a href= "downloads/snapshots/busybox-snapshot.tar.bz2">right here</a>.</li>
195 <li>BusyBox now has its own publically browsable <a
196 href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
197 anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
198 for those that are actively contributing there is
199 even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write
205 <!-- Begin Docs section -->
207 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
208 "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td>
212 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
213 Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
217 "downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. This is a
218 list of the all the available commands in BusyBox
219 with complete usage information and examples of how
220 to use each app. I have spent a <em>lot</em> of time
221 updating these docs and trying to make them fairly
222 comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
223 grammatical, whatever) please let me know.</li>
225 <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is
226 the README file included in the busybox source
230 "http://bugs.busybox.net/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox
231 Bugs</a>. Need to report a bug? Need to check if a
232 bug has been filed?</li>
234 <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
235 "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
241 <!-- Begin Links section -->
243 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
244 "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td>
248 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
250 <li><a href="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Free
251 Software from Bruce Perens</a><br>
252 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up
253 to 0.26 were written by <a href=
254 "mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is
255 his BusyBox website.</li>
258 "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat
259 AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li>
262 "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a
263 nice embedded tool for handling authentication,
264 changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely
265 complements BusyBox.</li>
267 <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is
268 a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for
269 embedded systems.</li>
271 <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> is a
272 C library for embedded systems. You can actually
273 statically link a "Hello World" application under x86
274 that only takes 4k (as opposed to 200k under GNU
275 libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely
276 with BusyBox to create very small embedded
282 <!-- Begin Projects section -->
284 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
285 "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using
286 BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
290 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
291 <p>I know of the following products and/or projects
292 that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add
293 them to the web page:</p>
297 "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian
298 installer (boot floppies) project</a></li>
300 <li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2
304 "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">
305 Slackware Installer</a></li>
307 <li><a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux
308 Router Project</a></li>
310 <li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a></li>
313 "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a></li>
315 <li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix
319 "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux
322 <li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a></li>
324 <li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS
327 <li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango
328 Internet Radio</a></li>
331 "http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN
334 <li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your
338 "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a></li>
341 "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a></li>
343 <li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran -
344 VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a></li>
346 <li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make
347 CD-ROM recovery</a></li>
350 "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on
354 "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a></li>
356 <li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori
358 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html">
359 Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href=
360 "http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at
362 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html">
365 <li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal
366 Server Project</a></li>
369 "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a></li>
372 "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a></li>
375 "http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a></li>
378 "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a></li>
381 "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a></li>
383 <li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a></li>
385 <li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
388 <li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a></li>
390 <li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux
393 <li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
396 <li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus
403 <p>Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and
404 I'd be happy to link to you. <!-- End of Table -->
414 <td class="c2">Mail all comments, insults, suggestions
415 and bribes to <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik
417 The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik
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