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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, /etc, and a kernel. -

- -BusyBox is maintained by - -Erik Andersen, and 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. - -

Sponsors

-Please visit our sponsors and thank them for supporting BusyBox -by providing us with equipment, bandwidth, and money. - - - -
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  • 3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net! -

    - - Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox users, we have been - able to purchase busybox.net (which is where you are probably - reading this). Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both - living on my home system (at the end of my DSL line). I - apologize for the abrupt move off of busybox.lineo.com. - Unfortunately, I no longer have the access needed to keep that - system updated (for example, you might notice the daily snapshots - there stopped some time ago). - -

    - - Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home server, at the end of a - DSL line. Unfortunately, the load on them is quite heavy. To address - this, I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net co-located - directly at an ISP. To assist in the co-location effort, Mark Whitley (author of - busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated his NetWinder computer for hosting - busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this system is co-located, the - current speed problems should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, - too, some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror sites, to help - to distribute the load a bit. - -

    - - - Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox donations, let me - assure you that no one is getting rich here. All BusyBox and - uClibc donations will be spent paying for bandwidth and needed - hardware upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently has - just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when google spidered the site - the other day, 64 Megs in not enough, so I'm going to be ordering - 256Megs of ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So far, - donations received have been sufficient to cover almost all - expenses. In the future, we may have co-location fees to worry - about, but for now we are ok. - A HUGE thank-you goes out to everyone that has - contributed! - -
    - -Erik - -

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  • 20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released -

    - - We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now - released to the world. This one is primarily a bugfix release for the - stable series, and it should take care of most everyone's needs - till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to - release (with the wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in this - release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been - re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when - told to do complex things with backticks. -

    - - This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, - libc5, and uClibc, so it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at. - See the changelog - for most of the details. The last release was - very solid for people, and this one should be even better. -

    - As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from - http://www.busybox.net/downloads. -

    - Have Fun.
    -Erik -

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-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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  • - Free Software from Bruce Perens
    - The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written - by Bruce Perens. This is his BusyBox website. -

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  • - Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox -

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  • TinyLogin - is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords, - and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox. -

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  • udhcp - is a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for embedded systems. -

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  • uClibc - 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. -

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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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