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- <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td>
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- <a href="/"><img src="images/busybox1.png" alt="BusyBox"
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- <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= "intro"><big>
- <b>The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</b>
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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, /etc, and a kernel.</p>
-
- <p>BusyBox is maintained by <a href=
- "http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik
- Andersen</a>, and 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>.</p>
-
- <h3>Mailing List Information</h3>
- BusyBox now has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing
- list</a>!<br>
- To subscribe, go and visit <a href=
- "/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
-
- <h3>Sponsors</h3>
- Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
- support! They have provided money for equipment and
- bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
- consider these fine companies!
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href=
- "http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
- Embedded open source consulting in Europe.</li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet
- Consulting</a><br>
- Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
- development.</li>
- </ul>
- Several individuals have also contributed. If you have
- already contributed and would like your name added
- here, just let me know. If you would like to be a
- BusyBox sponsor, email <a href=
- "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
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- <ul>
- <li>
- <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
-
- <p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
- users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
- (which is where you are probably reading this).
- Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
- living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
- line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
- busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
- the access needed to keep that system updated (for
- example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
- stopped some time ago).</p>
-
- <p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
- server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
- the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
- I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
- co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
- co-location effort, <a href=
- "http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
- (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
- his <a href=
- "http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
- for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
- system is co-located, the current speed problems
- should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
- some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
- sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
-
- <p><!--
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- Click here to help support busybox.net!
- <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
- <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
- <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
- <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
- <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
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- <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
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- -->
- Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
- donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
- rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
- spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
- upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
- has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
- google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
- not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
- ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
- far, donations received have been sufficient to
- cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
- have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
- we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
- everyone that has contributed!<br>
- -Erik</p>
- </li>
-
- <li>
- <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
-
- <p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
- 0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
- one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
- series, and it should take care of most everyone's
- needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
- been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
- wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
- this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
- (the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
- Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
- told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
-
- <p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
- powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
- should work with just about any Linux system you
- throw it at. See the <a href=
- "downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
- of</small> the details. The last release was
- <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
- be even better.</p>
-
- <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
- <a href=
- "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
-
- <p>Have Fun.<br>
- -Erik</p>
- </li>
-
- <li><b>Old News</b><br>
- For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the
- old news page</a>.</li>
- </ul>
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- <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
- "download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td>
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- <ul>
- <li>Source for the latest release can always be
- downloaded from <a href=
- "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</li>
-
- <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>
-
- <li>BusyBox now has its own publically browsable <a
- href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
- anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
- for those that are actively contributing there is
- even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write
- access</a>.</li>
- </ul>
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- <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
- "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td>
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- Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href=
- "downloads/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>
-
- <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is
- the README file included in the busybox source
- release.</li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://bugs.busybox.net/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox
- Bugs</a>. Need to report a bug? Need to check if a
- bug has been filed?</li>
-
- <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
- "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
- start.</li>
- </ul>
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- </tr>
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- <tr>
- <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
- "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
- <ul>
- <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.</li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat
- AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a
- nice embedded tool for handling authentication,
- changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely
- complements BusyBox.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is
- a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for
- embedded systems.</li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">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.</li>
- </ul>
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- <tr>
- <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
- "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using
- BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
- </tr>
-
- <tr>
- <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
- <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:</p>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href=
- "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian
- installer (boot floppies) project</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2
- installer</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">
- Slackware Installer</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux
- Router Project</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix
- Installer</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux
- 2.0 SBC</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS
- project</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango
- Internet Radio</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN
- Firewall</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your
- Linux Disk</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran -
- VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make
- CD-ROM recovery</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on
- nanoEngine</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori
- Linux</a> - <a href=
- "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html">
- Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href=
- "http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at
- the top of <a href=
- "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html">
- this page</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal
- Server Project</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a></li>
-
- <li><a href=
- "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
- Image</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux
- Phone</a></li>
-
- <li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
- Hat Linux</a></li>
- </ul>
-
- <li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus
- PDA</a></li>
- </ul>
-
- <p>Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and
- I'd be happy to link to you. <!-- End of Table -->
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- <td class="c2">Mail all comments, insults, suggestions
- and bribes to <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik
- Andersen</a><br>
- The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik
- Andersen.</td>
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- <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width="90"
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