<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
<hr>
+
+
+ <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://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
+ <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
+ <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
+ </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
+ for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
+ initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
+ home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
+ but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
+ I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
+ have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
+ even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
+ time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
+ bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
+ start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
+ will start costing some money.
+ <p>
+
+ I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
+ idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
+ where she wins and I don't> 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 people and companies that are willing to
+ contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
+ would be wonderful!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ 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="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <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://uclibc.org/">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://busybox.net/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 busybox.net.
+ <p>
+ Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/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="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</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="http://busybox.net/downloads/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="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</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>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
<br>
for letting me use their system!).
<p>
You can read the
- <a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
- <a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
- "ftp://busybox.net/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
+ "http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
image</a>. Here's how you use it:
<ol>
- <li> <a href= "ftp://busybox.net/busybox/busybox.floppy.img">
+ <li> <a href= "http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
Download the image</a>
<li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
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://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
<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
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://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ you might want to look at the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
<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
woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
<p>
The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
- the <a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
+ the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
<p>
Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
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://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>
+ See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
for complete details.
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://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>
+ See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
for complete details.
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://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
+ the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
details).
<p>
Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
projects / oweals / busybox.git / blobdiff