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33 The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
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38 BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
39 small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities
40 you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip,
41 tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or
42 embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than
43 their full featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide
44 the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
46 BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind.
47 It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or
48 features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded
49 systems. To create a working system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel.
52 BusyBox is maintained by
53 <a href="http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">
54 Erik Andersen</a>, and licensed under the
55 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>.
61 <p> Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox
62 is now available <a href="screenshot.html">right here</a>.
65 <H3>Mailing List Information</h3>
66 BusyBox now has a <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>!<br>
67 To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://www.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
70 Please visit our sponsors and thank them for supporting BusyBox
71 by providing us with equipment, bandwidth, and money.
73 <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">Öpensöurce AB</a><br>Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
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88 <li> <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
91 Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox users, we have been
92 able to purchase busybox.net (which is where you are probably
93 reading this). Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
94 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL line). I
95 apologize for the abrupt move off of busybox.lineo.com.
96 Unfortunately, I no longer have the access needed to keep that
97 system updated (for example, you might notice the daily snapshots
98 there stopped some time ago).
102 Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home server, at the end of a
103 DSL line. Unfortunately, the load on them is quite heavy. To address
104 this, I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net co-located
105 directly at an ISP. To assist in the co-location effort, <a
106 href="http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> (author of
107 busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated his <a
108 href="http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer for hosting
109 busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this system is co-located, the
110 current speed problems should be completely eliminated. Hopefully,
111 too, some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror sites, to help
112 to distribute the load a bit.
117 Click here to help support busybox.net!
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129 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox donations, let me
130 assure you that no one is getting rich here. All BusyBox and
131 uClibc donations will be spent paying for bandwidth and needed
132 hardware upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently has
133 just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when google spidered the site
134 the other day, 64 Megs in not enough, so I'm going to be ordering
135 256Megs of ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So far,
136 donations received have been sufficient to cover almost all
137 expenses. In the future, we may have co-location fees to worry
138 about, but for now we are ok.
139 A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to everyone that has
146 <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
149 We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now
150 released to the world. This one is primarily a bugfix release for the
151 stable series, and it should take care of most everyone's needs
152 till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to
153 release (with the wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in this
154 release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been
155 re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
156 told to do complex things with backticks.
159 This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4,
160 libc5, and uClibc, so it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at.
161 See the <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
162 for <small>most of</small> the details. The last release was
163 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should be even better.
165 As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
166 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
175 For the old news, visit <a href="http://www.busybox.net/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>.
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189 <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
190 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
192 <li> A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU
193 gzipped tarball <a href="busybox.tar.gz"> right here</a>.
195 <li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable
196 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
198 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
199 for those that are actively contributing there is even
200 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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213 Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
215 <li> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>.
216 This is a list of the all the available commands in BusyBox with
217 complete usage information and examples of how to use each app. I
218 have spent a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to
219 make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
220 grammatical, whatever) please let me know.
221 <li> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/README">README</a>.
222 This is the README file included in the busybox source release.
223 <li> <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox Bugs</a>.
224 Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed?
225 <li> If you need more help, the BusyBox
226 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is
227 a good place to start.
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244 <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
245 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
246 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
247 by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
250 <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">
251 Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
253 <li><a href="http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a>
254 is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords,
255 and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox.
258 <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a>
259 is a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for embedded systems.
262 <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
263 is a C library for embedded systems. You can actually statically link
264 a "Hello World" application under x86 that only takes 4k (as opposed to
265 200k under GNU libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely with
266 BusyBox to create very small embedded systems.
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276 Products/Projects Using BusyBox
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281 <p> I know of the following products and/or projects that use BusyBox --
282 listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page:
285 <li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
286 <li> <a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2 installer</a>
287 <li> <a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">Slackware Installer</a>
288 <li> <a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux Router Project </a>
289 <li> <a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a>
290 <li> <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a>
291 <li> <a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix Installer</a>
292 <li> <a href="http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux 2.0 SBC</a>
293 <li> <a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a>
294 <li> <a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS project</a>
295 <li> <a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a>
296 <li> <a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a>
297 <li> <a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your Linux Disk</a>
298 <li> <a href="http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a>
299 <li> <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a>
300 <li> <a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a>
301 <li> <a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery</a>
302 <li> <a href="http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on nanoEngine</a>
303 <li> <a href="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/"> Floppyfw</a>
305 <li> <a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/"> Midori Linux</a> - <a href=
306 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html"> Article on
307 Midori Linux</a> on <a href= "http://www.wired.com"> Wired</a>. Quote from
308 Erik at the top of <a href=
309 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html"> this
312 <li> <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal Server Project</a>
313 <li> <a href="http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a>
314 <li> <a href="http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a>
315 <li> <a href="http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a>
316 <li> <a href="http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a>
317 <li> <a href="http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a>
318 <li> <a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition Image</a>
322 <p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to
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