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<A NAME="intro"> <BIG><B>
The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
- </font>
- </A></B></BIG>
+ </B></BIG></A>
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<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
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
+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 a kernel, a shell (such as ash),
-and an editor (such as elvis-tiny or ae). For a really minimal system, just
-the the busybox shell (not a POSIX shell, but very small and quite usable).
+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>
-BusyBox is now maintained by
-<a href="http://www.xmission.com/~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>
+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>NEW!</h3>
-BusyBox now has a mailing list <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>!
+
+<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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<A NAME="news">
<BIG><B>
- Latest News</A>
+ Latest News
</B></BIG>
</A>
</TD></TR>
<ul>
- <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
- <br>
+ <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>
- This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
- syslogd that could fork-bomb your system). Added several new
- apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm,
- renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
- There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
- more correct option parsing.
- See the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>
- for complete details.
+ 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> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
+ 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 fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
- and fixes for NFSv3 mount support). Added a dumpkmap to allow
- people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
- completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
- BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
- See the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>
- for complete details.
+ 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>
- <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 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>
- This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
- point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
- release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
- mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
- telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
- the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
- details).
+ 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>
- Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
- <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
- 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>.
- I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
+ 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>
- Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
- a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released. To avoid any confusion
- we are just skipping 0.44.
+ 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>
- Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
- of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
+ <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>
- <p> <li> <b>Old News</b>
+
+ <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>.
</ul>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
<A NAME="download"><BIG><B>
Download
- </A></B></BIG>
+ </B></BIG></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
<ul>
- <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
+
+ <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> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable
+
+ <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>.
+
</ul>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
<A NAME="docs"><BIG><B>
Documentation
- </A></B></BIG>
+ </B></BIG></A>
</TD></TR>
<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
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/BusyBox.pdf">BusyBox.pdf</a>.
- This is basically the same document, but in pdf format.
- <li> <a href="http://bugs.lineo.com/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBoxBugs</a>.
+ <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
</ul>
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-
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
- <A NAME="projects"><BIG><B>
- Products/Projects using BusyBox
- </A></B></BIG>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-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:
-<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://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/system/recoveryl">Zdisk</a>
-
-</ul>
-Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to you.
-
-
-
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<A NAME="links">
<BIG><B>
- Important Links</A>
+ Important Links
</B></BIG>
</A>
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by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
<p>
- <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html">
+ <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">
Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
<p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
+ <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://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</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.
<p>
- <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
+ <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
<p>
</ul>
+<!-- Begin Projects section -->
+
+<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:
+
+<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>
+
+</ul>
+
+<p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to
+you.
+
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+ <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik Andersen</a><BR>
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