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  30           <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td>
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  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>
  43           </big></a></td>
  44         </tr>
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  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 -->
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  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>27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released</b>
  98
  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.
 106
 107                 <p>
 108                 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
 109                 the details.  As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
 110                 <p>Have Fun!
 111                 <p>
 112
 113
 114               <p>
 115               <li><b>6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!</b>
 116
 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>
 122                 in Canada and
 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!
 126
 127
 128               <p>
 129               <li><b>Old News</b><br>
 130                For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the
 131               old news page</a>.</li>
 132             </ul>
 133           </td>
 134         </tr>
 135
 136
 137         <!-- Begin Sponsors section -->
 138         <tr>
 139           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 140           "sponsors"><big><b>Sponsors</b></big></a></td>
 141         </tr>
 142
 143         <tr>
 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!
 149
 150
 151             <ul>
 152               <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
 153               Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
 154               </li>
 155
 156               <li><a href="http://i-netinnovations.com/">http://i-netinnovations.com/</a><br>
 157               Web hosting (currently hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org)
 158               </li>
 159
 160               <li><a href="http://www.lineo.com">Lineo</a><br>
 161               Embedded Linux development and services.
 162               </li>
 163
 164               <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>
 165               Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
 166               development.
 167               </li>
 168             </ul>
 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>.
 174           </td>
 175         </tr>
 176
 177         <!-- Begin Download section -->
 178         <p>
 179         <tr>
 180           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 181           "download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td>
 182         </tr>
 183
 184         <tr>
 185           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 186               Source for the latest release can always be
 187               downloaded from <a href="downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
 188               <p>
 189
 190           BusyBox now has <b>two</b> CVS trees.  The "busybox-stable"
 191           tree contains the latest updates to the 0.60.x stable series.
 192           The "busybox" tree contains the latest development version
 193           of busybox.<br>
 194             <ul>
 195                   <li><a href= "downloads/snapshots/">Daily Snapshots of the the latest
 196                     stable, and the latest development CVS source trees can be found right here</a>.
 197                   <br>
 198                   </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">Click here to browse the CVS
 199                       tree for the development version if BusyBox</a>
 200                   </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox.stable/">Click here to browse
 201                     the CVS tree for the stable 0.60.x version of BusyBox</a>.
 202                     </li><li>Anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS
 203                     access</a> is available.
 204                     </li><li>For those that are actively contributing there is
 205                     even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.</li>
 206             </ul>
 207           </td>
 208         </tr>
 209
 210         <!-- Begin Docs section -->
 211         <tr>
 212           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 213           "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td>
 214         </tr>
 215
 216         <tr>
 217           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 218             Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
 219
 220             <ul>
 221               <li><a href=
 222               "downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. This is a
 223               list of the all the available commands in BusyBox
 224               with complete usage information and examples of how
 225               to use each app. I have spent a <em>lot</em> of time
 226               updating these docs and trying to make them fairly
 227               comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
 228               grammatical, whatever) please let me know.</li>
 229
 230               <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is
 231               the README file included in the busybox source
 232               release.</li>
 233
 234               <li><a href=
 235               "http://bugs.busybox.net/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox
 236               Bugs</a>. Need to report a bug? Need to check if a
 237               bug has been filed?</li>
 238
 239               <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
 240               "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
 241               start.</li>
 242             </ul>
 243           </td>
 244         </tr>
 245
 246         <!-- Begin Links section -->
 247         <tr>
 248           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 249           "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td>
 250         </tr>
 251
 252         <tr>
 253           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 254             <ul>
 255               <li><a href="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Free
 256               Software from Bruce Perens</a><br>
 257                The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up
 258               to 0.26 were written by <a href=
 259               "mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is
 260               his BusyBox website.</li>
 261
 262               <li><a href=
 263               "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat
 264               AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li>
 265
 266               <li><a href=
 267               "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a
 268               nice embedded tool for handling authentication,
 269               changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely
 270               complements BusyBox.</li>
 271
 272               <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is
 273               a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for
 274               embedded systems.</li>
 275
 276               <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> is a
 277               C library for embedded systems. You can actually
 278               statically link a "Hello World" application under x86
 279               that only takes 4k (as opposed to 200k under GNU
 280               libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely
 281               with BusyBox to create very small embedded
 282               systems.</li>
 283             </ul>
 284           </td>
 285         </tr>
 286
 287         <!-- Begin Projects section -->
 288         <tr>
 289           <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
 290           "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using
 291           BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
 292         </tr>
 293
 294         <tr>
 295           <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
 296             <p>I know of the following products and/or projects
 297             that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add
 298             them to the web page:</p>
 299
 300             <ul>
 301               <li><a href=
 302               "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian
 303               installer (boot floppies) project</a></li>
 304
 305               <li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2
 306               installer</a></li>
 307
 308               <li><a href=
 309               "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">
 310               Slackware Installer</a></li>
 311
 312               <li><a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux
 313               Router Project</a></li>
 314
 315               <li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a></li>
 316
 317               <li><a href=
 318               "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a></li>
 319
 320               <li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix
 321               Installer</a></li>
 322
 323               <li><a href=
 324               "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux
 325               2.0 SBC</a></li>
 326
 327               <li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a></li>
 328
 329               <li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS
 330               project</a></li>
 331
 332               <li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango
 333               Internet Radio</a></li>
 334
 335               <li><a href=
 336               "http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN
 337               Firewall</a></li>
 338
 339               <li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your
 340               Linux Disk</a></li>
 341
 342               <li><a href=
 343               "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a></li>
 344
 345               <li><a href=
 346               "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a></li>
 347
 348               <li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran -
 349               VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a></li>
 350
 351               <li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make
 352               CD-ROM recovery</a></li>
 353
 354               <li><a href=
 355               "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on
 356               nanoEngine</a></li>
 357
 358               <li><a href=
 359               "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a></li>
 360
 361               <li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori
 362               Linux</a> - <a href=
 363               "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html">
 364               Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href=
 365               "http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at
 366               the top of <a href=
 367               "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html">
 368               this page</a></li>
 369
 370               <li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal
 371               Server Project</a></li>
 372
 373               <li><a href=
 374               "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a></li>
 375
 376               <li><a href=
 377               "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a></li>
 378
 379               <li><a href=
 380               "http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a></li>
 381
 382               <li><a href=
 383               "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a></li>
 384
 385               <li><a href=
 386               "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a></li>
 387
 388               <li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a></li>
 389
 390               <li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
 391               Image</a></li>
 392
 393               <li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a></li>
 394
 395               <li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux
 396               Phone</a></li>
 397
 398               <li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
 399               Hat Linux</a></li>
 400
 401               <li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus
 402               PDA</a></li>
 403
 404
 405
 406             </ul>
 407
 408             <p>Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and
 409             I'd be happy to link to you. <!-- End of Table -->
 410             </p>
 411           </td>
 412         </tr>
 413       </table>
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 419           <td class="c2">Mail all comments, insults, suggestions
 420           and bribes to <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik
 421           Andersen</a><br>
 422            The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik
 423           Andersen.</td>
 424
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