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).
+systems. To create a working system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel.
<p>
-BusyBox is now maintained by
+BusyBox is 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>
+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>
+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>!
<ul>
- <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
+ <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
+
+ <!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
+ <center>
+ Click here to help buy 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/Buy busybox.net">
+ <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://https://busybox.lineo.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
+ <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
+ <input type="image" src="http://images.paypal.com/images/x-click-butcc-donate.gif" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make payments with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure!">
+ </form>
+ </center>
+ <!-- End PayPal Logo -->
+
+ I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
+ to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org
+ but will not part with it... I will then need to pay the
+ registry fee, so this will initially cost about $300. I would
+ also like to host busybox.net on my home machine (codepoet.org)
+ so I have full control over the system, but I would need to
+ increase the level of bandwidth I am paying for (there have been
+ over 1 Gigabyte of busybox source downloads for the month of
+ November alone -- other months have had more).
+ <p>
+
+ I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
+ idea at all (big surprise). It turns out, she has better ideas
+ about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
+ busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
+ mailing list and web page. So...
+ <p>
+
+ I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit we could pick
+ up the busybox.net domain name, and cover the bandwidth costs. I
+ know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
+ individuals -- hopefully companies willing to contribute back a
+ bit. So if everyone could please help out, that would be
+ wonderful!
+ <p>
+
+ p.s. I plan on updating the Changelog later this evening, and
+ releasing busybox 0.60.2 later tonight. I will probably just merge
+ in vodz' msh since it fixes known problems, and since I haven't had
+ time to make it uClinux safe. Changelog entries for busybox.stable
+ are welcome.
+
+ <p>
+ <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 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>.
+ This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
+ up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
+ the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
+ serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
+ new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
+ here it is. Come and get it.
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
<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>
+
+
+ <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>
- 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>.
+ 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>
- 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.
+ 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>
- <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>
+
+ 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>
- 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.
+ 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 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>.
+ 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>
- 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>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>
and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox.
<p>
- <li><a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html">uCLibc</a>
+ <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.
+ 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>
listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page:
<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://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://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>
+
+ <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>
</ul>
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