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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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- Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox
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- Mailing List Information
-BusyBox now has a mailing list!
-To subscribe, go and visit this page.
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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!
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- -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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-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
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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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- I know of the following products and/or projects that use BusyBox --
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- Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to
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