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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 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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- Sponsors
- 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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- 3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!
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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).
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- 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.
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- 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
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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.
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- 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.
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- As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
- http://www.busybox.net/downloads.
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- Have Fun.
- -Erik
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- - Old News
- For the old news, visit the
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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
- them to the web page:
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- Sharp Zaurus
- PDA
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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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