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- - The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux - -
- -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. -

-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 a shell. -For a really minimal system, you can even use the busybox shell (not Bourne compatible, but very small and quite usable), and the busybox vi editor. -

- -BusyBox is now maintained by - -Erik Andersen, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by -Lineo. -

-BusyBox is licensed under the -GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE. -

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Screenshot

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Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox -is now available right here. - - -

Mailing List Information

-BusyBox now has a mailing list! -To subscribe, go and visit this page. - - - -
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  • 7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released -
    - - 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 many 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). - -

    - The - changelog 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 - ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox. -

    Have Fun! -

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  • 10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth -
    - 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 right here. - -

    (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.) -

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  • 10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released -
    - - BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This - release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, - contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only - 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. - There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in - the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in - 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially - deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. -

    - - There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For - one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov - added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC - compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility - functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now - all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes - maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now - compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters - for letting me use their system!). -

    - You can read the - changelog for - complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from - ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox. -

    Have Fun! -

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  • Busybox Boot-Floppy Image - -

    Because you asked for it, we have made available a Busybox boot floppy - image. Here's how you use it: - -

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    1. - Download the image - -
    2. dd it onto a floppy like so: dd if=busybox.floppy.img - of=/dev/fd0 ; sync - -
    3. Pop it in a machine and boot up. - -
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    If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: - -

    -	    mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos        
    -	    cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp                          
    -	    umount /mnt           
    -	    gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
    -	    mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
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    - For the old news, visit the old news page. -
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  • Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from - ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox. - -
  • A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU - gzipped tarball right here. - -
  • BusyBox now has its own publically browsable - CVS tree, - anonymous - CVS access, and - for those that are actively contributing there is even - CVS write access. - -
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- - Documentation - -
-Current documentation for BusyBox includes: -
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  • BusyBox.html. - 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 lot of time updating these docs and trying to - make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual, - grammatical, whatever) please let me know. -
  • README. - This is the README file included in the busybox source release. -
  • BusyBox Bugs. - Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed? -
  • If you need more help, the BusyBox - mailing list is - a good place to start. -
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- - Products/Projects Using BusyBox - -
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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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Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to -you. - - - - - -

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- - Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to - Erik Andersen
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