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- <A NAME="intro"> <BIG><B>
- The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
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-BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
-small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities
-you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip,
-tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or
-embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than
-their full featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide
-the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
-<p>
-BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind.
-It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or
-features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded
-systems. To create a working system, just add /dev, a kernel, and an editor,
-such as nano, e3, or elvis-tiny. For a really minimal system, you can even use
-the busybox shell (not Bourne compatible, but very small and quite usable).
-<p>
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-BusyBox is now maintained by
-<a href="http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">
-Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by
-<a href="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</a>.
-<p>
-BusyBox is licensed under the
-<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>
-<p>
-
-<h3> Screenshot </h3>
-
-<p> Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox
-is now available <a href="screenshot.html"> right here</a>
-
-<H3>Mailing List Information</h3>
-BusyBox now has a <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>!
-To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
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-<ul>
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- <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
- and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
- shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
- expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
- smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
- <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
- now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
- long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
- Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
- environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
- this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
- framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
- business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
- currently in progress at
- <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
-
-
- <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
- <br>
-
- Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
- things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
- For a list of the most interesting changes
- you might want to look at the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
- work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
- out of town.
- <p>
- <em>Special Note</em><br>
-
- BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
- shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
- Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
- shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
- construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
- Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
- progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
- and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
- release of BusyBox.
-
- <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
- rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
- update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
- optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
- that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
- now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
- shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
- woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
- <p>
- The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
- the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- <p>
- Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
- this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
-
-
- <li> <b>Old News</b>
- <br>
- For the old news, visit <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>.
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- Download
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- <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
- <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
-
- <li> A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU
- gzipped tarball <a href="busybox.tar.gz"> right here</a>.
-
- <li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable
- <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
- anonymous
- <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
- for those that are actively contributing there is even
- <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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-Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
-<ul>
- <li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>.
- This is a list of the all the available commands in BusyBox with
- complete usage information and examples of how to use each app. I
- have spent a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to
- make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
- grammatical, whatever) please let me know.
- <li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/README">README</a>.
- This is the README file included in the busybox source release.
- <li> <a href="http://bugs.lineo.com/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox Bugs</a>.
- Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed?
- <li> If you need more help, the BusyBox
- <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is
- a good place to start.
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- <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
- Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
- The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
- by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
- <p>
-
- <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">
- Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
- <p>
- <li><a href="http://tinylogin.lineo.com/">TinyLogin</a>
- is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords,
- and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox.
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html">uCLibc</a>
- is a C library for embedded systems. You can actually statically link
- a "Hello World" application under x86 that only takes 4k (as opposed to
- 200k under GNU libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely with
- BusyBox. to create very small embedded systems.
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>.
- <p>
-
- <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
- <p>
-
-</ul>
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-<p> I know of the following products and/or projects that use BusyBox --
-listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page:
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-<ul>
- <li> <a href="http://www.lineo.com/products/embedix_linux/">Lineo Embedix Linux</a>
- <li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux Router Project </a>
- <li> <a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix Installer</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux 2.0 SBC</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a>
- <li> <a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS project</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a>
- <li> <a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your Linux Disk</a>
- <li> <a href="http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a>
- <li> <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a>
- <li> <a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery</a>
- <li> <a href="http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on nanoEngine</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/"> Floppyfw</a>
- <li> <a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/"> Midori Linux</a>
-
-</ul>
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-<p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to
-you.
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