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30 <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td>
33 <a href="/"><img src="images/busybox1.png" alt="BusyBox"
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41 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= "intro"><big>
42 <b>The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</b>
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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!
153 "http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
154 Embedded open source consulting in Europe.</li>
156 <li><a href= "http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a><br>
157 Web hosting (they host busybox.net and uclibc.org).</li>
160 "http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet
162 Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
165 Several individuals have also contributed. If you have
166 already contributed and would like your name added
167 here, just let me know. If you would like to be a
168 BusyBox sponsor, email <a href=
169 "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
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176 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
177 "download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td>
181 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
183 <li>Source for the latest release can always be
184 downloaded from <a href=
185 "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</li>
187 <li>A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is
188 available as a GNU gzipped tarball <a href=
189 "downloads/snapshots/busybox-snapshot.tar.bz2">right here</a>.</li>
191 <li>BusyBox now has its own publically browsable <a
192 href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
193 anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
194 for those that are actively contributing there is
195 even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write
201 <!-- Begin Docs section -->
203 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
204 "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td>
208 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
209 Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
213 "downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. This is a
214 list of the all the available commands in BusyBox
215 with complete usage information and examples of how
216 to use each app. I have spent a <em>lot</em> of time
217 updating these docs and trying to make them fairly
218 comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
219 grammatical, whatever) please let me know.</li>
221 <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is
222 the README file included in the busybox source
226 "http://bugs.busybox.net/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox
227 Bugs</a>. Need to report a bug? Need to check if a
228 bug has been filed?</li>
230 <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
231 "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
237 <!-- Begin Links section -->
239 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
240 "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td>
244 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
246 <li><a href="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Free
247 Software from Bruce Perens</a><br>
248 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up
249 to 0.26 were written by <a href=
250 "mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is
251 his BusyBox website.</li>
254 "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat
255 AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li>
258 "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a
259 nice embedded tool for handling authentication,
260 changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely
261 complements BusyBox.</li>
263 <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is
264 a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for
265 embedded systems.</li>
267 <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> is a
268 C library for embedded systems. You can actually
269 statically link a "Hello World" application under x86
270 that only takes 4k (as opposed to 200k under GNU
271 libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely
272 with BusyBox to create very small embedded
278 <!-- Begin Projects section -->
280 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
281 "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using
282 BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
286 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
287 <p>I know of the following products and/or projects
288 that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add
289 them to the web page:</p>
293 "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian
294 installer (boot floppies) project</a></li>
296 <li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2
300 "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">
301 Slackware Installer</a></li>
303 <li><a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux
304 Router Project</a></li>
306 <li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a></li>
309 "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a></li>
311 <li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix
315 "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux
318 <li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a></li>
320 <li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS
323 <li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango
324 Internet Radio</a></li>
327 "http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN
330 <li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your
334 "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a></li>
337 "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a></li>
339 <li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran -
340 VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a></li>
342 <li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make
343 CD-ROM recovery</a></li>
346 "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on
350 "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a></li>
352 <li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori
354 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html">
355 Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href=
356 "http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at
358 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html">
361 <li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal
362 Server Project</a></li>
365 "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a></li>
368 "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a></li>
371 "http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a></li>
374 "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a></li>
377 "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a></li>
379 <li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a></li>
381 <li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
384 <li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a></li>
386 <li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux
389 <li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
392 <li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus
399 <p>Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and
400 I'd be happy to link to you. <!-- End of Table -->
410 <td class="c2">Mail all comments, insults, suggestions
411 and bribes to <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik
413 The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik
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