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- The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
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- 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 GNU
- fileutils, shellutils, etc. 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 provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any
- small or embedded system.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Mailing List Information
- BusyBox now has a mailing
- list!
- To subscribe, go and visit this page.
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- Latest News |
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- - 26 October 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.5 released
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- I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.5 (stable)
- is now available for download. This is a bugfix release for
- the stable series to address all the problems that have turned
- up since the last release. Unfortunately, the previous release
- had a few nasty bugs (i.e. init could deadlock, gunzip -c tried
- to delete source files, cp -a wouldn't copy symlinks, and init
- was not always providing controlling ttys when it should have).
- I know I said that the previous release would be the end of the
- 0.60.x series. Well, it turns out I'm a liar. But this time I
- mean it (just like last time ;-). This will be the last
- release for the 0.60.x series -- all further development work
- will be done for the development busybox tree. Expect the development
- version to have its first real release very very soon now...
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- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
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- - 18 September 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.4 released
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- I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.4
- (stable) is now available for download. This is primarily
- a bugfix release for the stable series to address all
- the problems that have turned up since the last
- release. This will be the last release for the 0.60.x series.
- I mean it this time -- all further development work will be done
- on the development busybox tree, which is quite solid now and
- should soon be getting its first real release.
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- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
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- - 27 April 2002 -- BusyBox 0.60.3 released
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- I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.3 (stable) is
- now available for download. This is primarily a bugfix release
- for the stable series. A number of problems have turned up since
- the last release, and this should address most of those problems.
- This should be the last release for the 0.60.x series. The
- development busybox tree has been progressing nicely, and will
- hopefully be ready to become the next stable release.
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- The changelog has all
- the details. As usual you can download busybox here.
- Have Fun!
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- - 6 March 2002 -- busybox.net now has mirrors!
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- Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to
- the fine folks at http://i-netinnovations.com/
- who are providing hosting for busybox.net and
- uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors:
- http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/
- in Canada and
- http://busybox.csservers.de/
- in Germany. I hope this makes things much more
- accessible for everyone!
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- - Old News
- For the old news, visit the
- old news page.
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- Sponsors |
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- Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
- support! They have provided money for equipment and
- bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
- consider these fine companies!
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- Several individuals have also contributed. If you have
- already contributed and would like your name added
- here, just let me know. If you would like to be a
- BusyBox sponsor, email Erik.
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- Source for the latest release can always be
- downloaded from http://www.busybox.net/downloads.
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- BusyBox now has two CVS trees. The "busybox-stable"
- tree contains the latest updates to the 0.60.x stable series.
- The "busybox" tree contains the latest development version
- of busybox.
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- Documentation |
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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.
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- - README. This is
- the README file included in the busybox source
- release.
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- - BusyBox
- Bugs. Need to report a bug? Need to check if a
- bug has been filed?
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- - If you need more help, the BusyBox mailing list is a good place to
- start.
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- Important Links |
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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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- Products/Projects Using
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- I know of the following products and/or projects
- that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add
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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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