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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 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.
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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
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-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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- - 20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released
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-
- I 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 I believe 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.
-
-
- I've personally tested this release out
- 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
- ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox.
-
- And please read the news item for the 18th as well. Have Fun.
-Erik
-
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- - 18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!
-
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-
- Click here to help buy busybox.net!
-
-
-
-
- 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 know 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.
-
-
- 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...
-
-
- 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!
-
-
-
- - 23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released
-
-
- 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 too
- 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.
-
- The
- changelog has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
- ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
- - 2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released
-
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
- and uClibc 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.
-
-
-
- Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
- use User-Mode Linux
- to give it a try by downloading and compiling
- buildroot.tar.gz.
- 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.
-
- Another cool thing is the nifty
- BusyBox Tutorial contributed by K Computing. This requires
- a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
- the GPLed shockwave viewer from here
- to view the tutorial.
-
-
- Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
- version number of this release, let me point out that this release
- is not 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.
-
-
- The
- changelog has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
- ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox.
- Have Fun!
-
-
-
- - 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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