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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. - - - -
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  • 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! -

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  • 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! -

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  • 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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  • Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from - ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox. - -
  • A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU - gzipped tarball right here. - -
  • BusyBox now has its own publically browsable - CVS tree, - anonymous - CVS access, and - for those that are actively contributing there is even - CVS write access. - -
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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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  • 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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  • Other cool embedded software. -

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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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