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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 their support! They have
71 provided money for equipment and bandwidth. Next time you need help
72 with a project, consider these fine companies!
74 <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">Öpensöurce AB</a><br>Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
75 <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc development.
78 Several individuals have also contributed. If you have already contributed
79 and would like your name added here, just let me know. If you would like
80 to be a BusyBox sponsor, email <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
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95 <li> <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
98 Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox users, we have been
99 able to purchase busybox.net (which is where you are probably
100 reading this). Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
101 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL line). I
102 apologize for the abrupt move off of busybox.lineo.com.
103 Unfortunately, I no longer have the access needed to keep that
104 system updated (for example, you might notice the daily snapshots
105 there stopped some time ago).
109 Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home server, at the end of a
110 DSL line. Unfortunately, the load on them is quite heavy. To address
111 this, I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net co-located
112 directly at an ISP. To assist in the co-location effort, <a
113 href="http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> (author of
114 busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated his <a
115 href="http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer for hosting
116 busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this system is co-located, the
117 current speed problems should be completely eliminated. Hopefully,
118 too, some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror sites, to help
119 to distribute the load a bit.
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136 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox donations, let me
137 assure you that no one is getting rich here. All BusyBox and
138 uClibc donations will be spent paying for bandwidth and needed
139 hardware upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently has
140 just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when google spidered the site
141 the other day, 64 Megs in not enough, so I'm going to be ordering
142 256Megs of ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So far,
143 donations received have been sufficient to cover almost all
144 expenses. In the future, we may have co-location fees to worry
145 about, but for now we are ok.
146 A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to everyone that has
153 <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
156 We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now
157 released to the world. This one is primarily a bugfix release for the
158 stable series, and it should take care of most everyone's needs
159 till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to
160 release (with the wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in this
161 release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been
162 re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
163 told to do complex things with backticks.
166 This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4,
167 libc5, and uClibc, so it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at.
168 See the <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
169 for <small>most of</small> the details. The last release was
170 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should be even better.
172 As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
173 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
182 For the old news, visit <a href="http://www.busybox.net/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>.
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196 <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
197 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
199 <li> A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU
200 gzipped tarball <a href="busybox.tar.gz"> right here</a>.
202 <li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable
203 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
205 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
206 for those that are actively contributing there is even
207 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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220 Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
222 <li> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>.
223 This is a list of the all the available commands in BusyBox with
224 complete usage information and examples of how to use each app. I
225 have spent a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to
226 make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
227 grammatical, whatever) please let me know.
228 <li> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/README">README</a>.
229 This is the README file included in the busybox source release.
230 <li> <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox Bugs</a>.
231 Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed?
232 <li> If you need more help, the BusyBox
233 <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is
234 a good place to start.
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251 <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
252 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
253 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
254 by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
257 <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">
258 Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
260 <li><a href="http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a>
261 is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords,
262 and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox.
265 <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a>
266 is a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for embedded systems.
269 <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
270 is a C library for embedded systems. You can actually statically link
271 a "Hello World" application under x86 that only takes 4k (as opposed to
272 200k under GNU libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely with
273 BusyBox to create very small embedded systems.
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283 Products/Projects Using BusyBox
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288 <p> I know of the following products and/or projects that use BusyBox --
289 listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page:
292 <li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
293 <li> <a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2 installer</a>
294 <li> <a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">Slackware Installer</a>
295 <li> <a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux Router Project </a>
296 <li> <a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a>
297 <li> <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a>
298 <li> <a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix Installer</a>
299 <li> <a href="http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux 2.0 SBC</a>
300 <li> <a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a>
301 <li> <a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS project</a>
302 <li> <a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a>
303 <li> <a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a>
304 <li> <a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your Linux Disk</a>
305 <li> <a href="http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a>
306 <li> <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a>
307 <li> <a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a>
308 <li> <a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery</a>
309 <li> <a href="http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on nanoEngine</a>
310 <li> <a href="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/"> Floppyfw</a>
312 <li> <a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/"> Midori Linux</a> - <a href=
313 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html"> Article on
314 Midori Linux</a> on <a href= "http://www.wired.com"> Wired</a>. Quote from
315 Erik at the top of <a href=
316 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html"> this
319 <li> <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal Server Project</a>
320 <li> <a href="http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a>
321 <li> <a href="http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a>
322 <li> <a href="http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a>
323 <li> <a href="http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a>
324 <li> <a href="http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a>
325 <li> <a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition Image</a>
326 <li> <a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a>
330 <p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to
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