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  30           <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td>
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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>
  43           </big></a></td>
  44         </tr>
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  46         <tr>
  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.
  57
  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>
  64
  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>
  70
  71             <h3>Screenshot</h3>
  72
  73             <p>Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of
  74             BusyBox is now available <a href=
  75             "screenshot.html">right here</a>.</p>
  76
  77             <h3>Mailing List Information</h3>
  78             BusyBox now has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing
  79             list</a>!<br>
  80             To subscribe, go and visit <a href=
  81             "/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
  82
  83             <!-- Begin Latest News section -->
  84           </td>
  85         </tr>
  86
  87         <tr>
  88           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
  89           "news"><big><b>Latest News</b></big></a></td>
  90         </tr>
  91
  92         <tr>
  93           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
  94             <ul>
  95
  96               <p>
  97               <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
  98
  99                 The busybox development series has been under construction for
 100                 nearly two years now.  Which is just entirely too long...  So
 101                 it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
 102                 of a new stable series.  Due to the huge number of changes
 103                 since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
 104                 number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
 105                 1.0.x...
 106                 <p>
 107
 108                 The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
 109                 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
 110                 fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
 111                 later this month)...  I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
 112                 Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
 113                 Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
 114                 up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
 115                 of July.
 116                 <p>
 117
 118                 If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
 119                 and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
 120                 rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch.  That
 121                 happens sometimes.  Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
 122                 support questions, etc, directly to Erik.  I get hundreds of
 123                 emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
 124                 sometimes in the flood)...  The busybox mailing list is the
 125                 right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
 126                 <p>
 127
 128                 I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
 129                 McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
 130                 (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
 131                 have made this release possible.
 132                 <p>
 133
 134                 As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
 135                 You don't really need to bother with the
 136                 <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
 137                 vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
 138                 But you can take a look if you really want too.
 139
 140                 <p>Have Fun!
 141                 <p>
 142
 143
 144
 145               <p>
 146               <li><b>Old News</b><br>
 147                For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the
 148               old news page</a>.</li>
 149             </ul>
 150           </td>
 151         </tr>
 152
 153
 154         <!-- Begin Sponsors section -->
 155         <tr>
 156           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 157           "sponsors"><big><b>Sponsors</b></big></a></td>
 158         </tr>
 159
 160         <tr>
 161           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 162             Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
 163             support! They have provided money for equipment and
 164             bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
 165             consider these fine companies!
 166
 167
 168             <ul>
 169               <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br>
 170               Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms
 171               </li>
 172
 173               <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
 174               Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
 175               </li>
 176
 177               <li><a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a><br>
 178               Web hosting (currently hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org)
 179               </li>
 180
 181               <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>
 182               Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
 183               development.
 184               </li>
 185             </ul>
 186             Several individuals have also contributed. If you have
 187             already contributed and would like your name added
 188             here, just let me know. If you would like to be a
 189             BusyBox sponsor, email <a href=
 190             "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
 191           </td>
 192         </tr>
 193
 194         <!-- Begin Download section -->
 195         <p>
 196         <tr>
 197           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 198           "download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td>
 199         </tr>
 200
 201         <tr>
 202           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 203               Source for the latest release can always be
 204               downloaded from <a href="downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
 205               <p>
 206
 207           BusyBox now has <b>two</b> CVS trees.  The "busybox-stable" tree
 208           contains the older 0.60.x stable series.  The "busybox" tree contains
 209           the latest 1.0.0-preX development version of busybox.<br>
 210
 211             <ul>
 212                   <li><a href= "downloads/snapshots/">Daily Snapshots of the the latest
 213                     stable, and the latest development CVS source trees can be found right here</a>.
 214                   <br>
 215                   </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">Click here to browse the CVS
 216                       tree for the 1.0.0-preX development version of BusyBox</a>
 217                   </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox.stable/">Click here to browse
 218                     the CVS tree for the stable 0.60.x version of BusyBox</a>.
 219                     </li><li>Anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS
 220                     access</a> is available.
 221                     </li><li>For those that are actively contributing there is
 222                     even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.</li>
 223             </ul>
 224           </td>
 225         </tr>
 226
 227         <!-- Begin Docs section -->
 228         <tr>
 229           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 230           "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td>
 231         </tr>
 232
 233         <tr>
 234           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 235             Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
 236
 237             <ul>
 238               <li><a href=
 239               "downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. This is a
 240               list of the all the available commands in BusyBox
 241               with complete usage information and examples of how
 242               to use each app. I have spent a <em>lot</em> of time
 243               updating these docs and trying to make them fairly
 244               comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
 245               grammatical, whatever) please let me know.</li>
 246
 247               <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is
 248               the README file included in the busybox source
 249               release.</li>
 250
 251               <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
 252               "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
 253               start.</li>
 254             </ul>
 255           </td>
 256         </tr>
 257
 258         <!-- Begin Links section -->
 259         <tr>
 260           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 261           "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td>
 262         </tr>
 263
 264         <tr>
 265           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 266             <ul>
 267               <li><a href="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Free
 268               Software from Bruce Perens</a><br>
 269                The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up
 270               to 0.26 were written by <a href=
 271               "mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is
 272               his BusyBox website.</li>
 273
 274               <li><a href=
 275               "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat
 276               AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li>
 277
 278               <li><a href=
 279               "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a
 280               nice embedded tool for handling authentication,
 281               changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely
 282               complements BusyBox.</li>
 283
 284               <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is
 285               a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for
 286               embedded systems.</li>
 287
 288               <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> is a
 289               C library for embedded systems. You can actually
 290               statically link a "Hello World" application under x86
 291               that only takes 4k (as opposed to 200k under GNU
 292               libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely
 293               with BusyBox to create very small embedded Linux systems.
 294               </li>
 295             </ul>
 296           </td>
 297         </tr>
 298
 299         <!-- Begin Projects section -->
 300         <tr>
 301           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 302           "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
 303         </tr>
 304
 305         <tr>
 306           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 307             <p>I know of the following products and/or projects
 308             that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add
 309             them to the web page:</p>
 310
 311             <ul>
 312
 313
 314               <li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> a configurable
 315               means for building your own busybox/uClibc based system systems.
 316
 317               </li><li><a href=
 318               "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">
 319               Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
 320
 321               </li><li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2
 322               installer</a>
 323
 324               </li><li><a href=
 325               "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">
 326               Slackware Installer</a>
 327
 328               </li><li><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux install/boot CDs</a>
 329               </li><li><a href="http://www.mandrake.com/">The Mandrake installer</a>
 330
 331               </li><li><a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux
 332               Router Project</a>
 333
 334               </li><li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a>
 335
 336               </li><li><a href=
 337               "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a>
 338
 339               </li><li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix
 340               Installer</a>
 341
 342               </li><li><a href=
 343               "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux
 344               2.0 SBC</a>
 345
 346               </li><li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a>
 347
 348               </li><li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS
 349               project</a>
 350
 351               </li><li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your
 352               Linux Disk</a>
 353
 354               </li><li><a href=
 355               "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a>
 356
 357               </li><li><a href=
 358               "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a>
 359
 360               </li><li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran -
 361               VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a>
 362
 363               </li><li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make
 364               CD-ROM recovery</a>
 365
 366               </li><li><a href=
 367               "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on
 368               nanoEngine</a>
 369
 370               </li><li><a href=
 371               "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a>
 372
 373               </li><li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori
 374               Linux</a> - <a href=
 375               "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html">
 376               Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href=
 377               "http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at
 378               the top of <a href=
 379               "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html">
 380               this page</a>
 381
 382               </li><li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal
 383               Server Project</a>
 384
 385               </li><li><a href=
 386               "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a>
 387
 388               </li><li><a href=
 389               "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a>
 390
 391               </li><li><a href=
 392               "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a>
 393
 394               </li><li><a href=
 395               "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a>
 396
 397               </li><li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a>
 398
 399               </li><li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
 400               Image</a>
 401
 402               </li><li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a>
 403
 404               </li><li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
 405               Hat Linux</a>
 406
 407               </li><li><a href="http://familiar.handhelds.org/">Familiar Linux</a> - a linux distribution for handheld computers
 408               </li><li><a href="http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/">Timo's Rescue CD Set</a>
 409               </li><li><a href="http://sf.net/projects/netstation/">Netstation</a>
 410               </li><li><a href="http://www.fiwix.org/">GNU/Fiwix Operating System</a>
 411               </li><li><a href="http://www.softcraft.com/">Generations Linux</a>
 412               </li><li><a href="http://systemimager.org/relatedprojects/">SystemImager / System Installation Suite</a>
 413               </li><li><a href="http://www.bablokb.de/gendist/">GENDIST distribution generator</a>
 414               </li><li><a href="http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/">DIET-PC embedded Linux thin client distribution</a>
 415               </li><li><a href="http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/">BYZantine Gnu/Linux</a>
 416               </li><li><a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">Darik's Boot and Nuke</a>
 417               </li><li><a href="http://www.timesys.com/">TimeSys real-time Linux</a>
 418               </li><li><a href="http://movix.sf.net/">MoviX</a> -- boots from CD and automatically plays every video file on the CD
 419               </li><li><a href="http://katamaran.sourceforge.net">katamaran</a>Linux, X11, xfce windowmanager, based on BusyBox
 420               </li><li><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/simplygnustep"></a>Prometheus SimplyGNUstep
 421               </li><li><a href="http://www.renyi.hu/~ekho/lowlife/">lowlife</a>A documentation project on how to make your own uClibc-based systems and floppy.
 422               </li><li><a href="http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/">Metadistros</a>a project to allow you easily make Live-CD distributions.
 423               </li><li><a href="http://salvare.sourceforge.net/">Salvare</a>More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk.
 424               </li><li><a href="http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/">thinstation</a>convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thinclients.
 425
 426               </li><li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a>
 427               </li><li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a>
 428               </li><li><a href= "http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a>
 429               </li><li><a href="http://www.isilver-inc.com/">I-Silver Linux appliance servers</a>
 430               </li><li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus PDA</a>
 431               </li><li><a href="http://www.cyclades.com/">Cyclades-TS and other Cyclades products</a>
 432               </li><li><a href="http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/wireless/wbr-g54.htm">Buffalo WBR-G54 wireless router</a>
 433               </li><li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a>
 434               </li><li><a href="http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508">Linksys WRT54G - Wireless-G Broadband Router</a>
 435
 436
 437             </ul>
 438
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