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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 GNU
- fileutils, shellutils, etc. 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.
- BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any
- small or embedded system.
-
- <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 has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>.<br>
- To subscribe, go and visit <a href="/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
- <br>
- Before asking questions on the mailing list
- you should probably first search the mailing list archives...
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- <p>
- <li><b>15 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released</b><p>
-
- The busybox development series has been under construction for
- nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So
- it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release
- of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes
- since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version
- number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison
- 1.0.x...
- <p>
-
- The point of "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
- people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
- fixed prior to the magic 1.0.0 release (which should happen
- later this month)... I plan to release BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 next
- Monday (July 21st), and, if necessary, -pre3 on July 28th.
- Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem turns
- up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release should be ready by the end
- of July.
- <p>
-
- If you have submitted patches, and they are not in this release
- and I have not emailed you explaining why your patch was
- rejected, it is safe to say that I have lost your patch. That
- happens sometimes. Please do <B>NOT</b> send all your patches,
- support questions, etc, directly to Erik. I get hundreds of
- emails every day (which is why I end up losing patches
- sometimes in the flood)... The busybox mailing list is the
- right place to send your patches, support questions, etc.
- <p>
-
- I would like to especially thank Vladimir Oleynik (vodz), Glenn
- McGrath (bug1), Robert Griebl (sandman), and Manuel Novoa III
- (mjn3) for their significant efforts and contributions that
- have made this release possible.
- <p>
-
- As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
- You don't really need to bother with the
- <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
- vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
- But you can take a look if you really want too.
-
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
-
- <p>
- <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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- 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://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br>
- Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms
- </li>
-
- <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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- Source for the latest release can always be
- downloaded from <a href="downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>
-
- BusyBox now has <b>two</b> CVS trees. The "busybox-stable" tree
- contains the older 0.60.x stable series. The "busybox" tree contains
- the latest 1.0.0-preX development version of busybox.<br>
-
- <ul>
- <li><a href= "downloads/snapshots/">Daily Snapshots of the the latest
- stable, and the latest development CVS source trees can be found right here</a>.
- <br>
- </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">Click here to browse the CVS
- tree for the 1.0.0-preX development version of BusyBox</a>
- </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox.stable/">Click here to browse
- the CVS tree for the stable 0.60.x version of BusyBox</a>.
- </li><li>Anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS
- access</a> is available.
- </li><li>For those that are actively contributing there is
- even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.</li>
- </ul>
- </td>
- </tr>
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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>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
- "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
- start.</li>
- </ul>
- </td>
- </tr>
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- "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 Linux systems.
- </li>
- </ul>
- </td>
- </tr>
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- <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
- "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
- </tr>
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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:</p>
-
- <ul>
-
-
- <li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> a configurable
- means for building your own busybox/uClibc based system systems.
-
- </li><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.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux install/boot CDs</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.mandrake.com/">The Mandrake 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://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.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a>
-
- </li><li><a href=
- "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a>
-
- </li><li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a>
-
- </li><li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
- Image</a>
-
- </li><li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a>
-
- </li><li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
- Hat Linux</a>
-
- </li><li><a href="http://familiar.handhelds.org/">Familiar Linux</a> - a linux distribution for handheld computers
- </li><li><a href="http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/">Timo's Rescue CD Set</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://sf.net/projects/netstation/">Netstation</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.fiwix.org/">GNU/Fiwix Operating System</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.softcraft.com/">Generations Linux</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://systemimager.org/relatedprojects/">SystemImager / System Installation Suite</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.bablokb.de/gendist/">GENDIST distribution generator</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/">DIET-PC embedded Linux thin client distribution</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/">BYZantine Gnu/Linux</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">Darik's Boot and Nuke</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.timesys.com/">TimeSys real-time Linux</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://movix.sf.net/">MoviX</a> -- boots from CD and automatically plays every video file on the CD
- </li><li><a href="http://katamaran.sourceforge.net">katamaran</a>Linux, X11, xfce windowmanager, based on BusyBox
- </li><li><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/simplygnustep">Prometheus SimplyGNUstep</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.renyi.hu/~ekho/lowlife/">lowlife</a>A documentation project on how to make your own uClibc-based systems and floppy.
- </li><li><a href="http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/">Metadistros</a>a project to allow you easily make Live-CD distributions.
- </li><li><a href="http://salvare.sourceforge.net/">Salvare</a>More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk.
- </li><li><a href="http://www.stresslinux.org/">stresslinux</a>minimal linux distribution running from a bootable cdrom or via PXE.
- </li><li><a href="http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/">thinstation</a>convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thinclients.
-
- </li><li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</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://www.isilver-inc.com/">I-Silver Linux appliance servers</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus PDA</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.cyclades.com/">Cyclades-TS and other Cyclades products</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/wireless/wbr-g54.htm">Buffalo WBR-G54 wireless router</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508">Linksys WRT54G - Wireless-G Broadband Router</a>
- </li><li><a href="http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/topics/sbtopic_005_truemobile.htm">Dell TrueMobile 1184</a>
-
-
- </ul>
-
- <p>Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and
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