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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.

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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. - -

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! - - - 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. - -
Latest News
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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).

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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 - -

    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 - old news page.
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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.
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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 - 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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  • 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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