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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, /etc, and a kernel.
-<p>
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-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>
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-<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://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>!<br>
-To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://www.busybox.net/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/">Öpensöurce AB</a><br>Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
- <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc development.
-</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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- <li> <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
- <p>
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- 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>
-
- 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.
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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> <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>
-
- 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="http://www.busybox.net/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>
- As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>
- Have Fun.<br> -Erik
- <p>
-
-
-
- <li> <b>Old News</b>
- <br>
- For the old news, visit <a href="http://www.busybox.net/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>.
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- <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</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://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
- anonymous
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
- for those that are actively contributing there is even
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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-Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
-<ul>
- <li> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/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> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/README">README</a>.
- This is the README file included in the busybox source release.
- <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> If you need more help, the BusyBox
- <a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is
- a good place to start.
-</ul>
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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.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a>
- is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords,
- and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox.
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a>
- is a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for embedded systems.
- <p>
-
- <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.
- <p>
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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://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
- <li> <a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2 installer</a>
- <li> <a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">Slackware Installer</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> - <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> <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal Server Project</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a>
- <li> <a href="http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a>
- <li> <a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition Image</a>
- <li> <a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a>
-
-</ul>
-
-<p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to
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