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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 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>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
- <br>
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
- and <a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html">uClibc</a> on
- x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
- of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
- Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
- stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
- a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
- cleans up a number of things.
-
- <p>
-
- Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
- use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
- to give it a try by downloading and compiling
- <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
- You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
- Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on oss.lineo.com.
- <p>
- Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/tutorial/index.html">
- BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
- a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
- the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
- to view the tutorial.
- <p>
-
- Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
- version number of this release, let me point out that this release
- is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
- bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
- a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
- stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
- 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
- 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
- the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
- next release and I don't want that to break products that people
- are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
- released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
- have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
- stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
- I will release that as a new stable release series.
-
- <p>
- The
- <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
- <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
- <br>
-
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
- release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
- of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
- several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
- and ash).
-
- <p>
- The
- <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
- some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
- are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
- BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
- <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
- <br>
- The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
- of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
- viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
-
- <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
- can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
- turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
- <p>
-
-
-
- <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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- <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.
-</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.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>
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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> - <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>
-
-</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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