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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 GNU - fileutils, shellutils, etc. 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 provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any - small or embedded system. - -

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 has a mailing list.
- To subscribe, go and visit this page. -
- Before asking questions on the mailing list - you should probably first search the mailing list archives... -
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Latest News
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  • 12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released

    - - Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable - series. The last prerelease has help up quite well under - testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number - of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all - the testing, bug reports, and patches! - -

    - - If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox - mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your - patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has - somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. - Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox - mailing list! - -

    - - The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of - people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be - fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature - (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO - list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the - modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have - patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be - integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports - a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit - more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x - module loading alone. - -

    - - I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of - course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of - uClibc - out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for - stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am - not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0 - -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September... - But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or - exceptionally unstable!) then next release may be very soon - indeed. - -

    - - The changelog has all - the details. And as usual you can - download busybox here. - -

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  • Old News
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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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  • Penguru Consulting
    - Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms -
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  • opensource.se
    - Embedded open source consulting in Europe. -
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  • Codepoet Consulting
    - Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc - development. -
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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. -
Download
- Source for the latest release can always be - downloaded from http://www.busybox.net/downloads. -

- - BusyBox now has two CVS trees. The "busybox-stable" tree - contains the older 0.60.x stable series. The "busybox" tree contains - the latest 1.0.0-preX development version of busybox.
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Documentation
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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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  • 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 Linux 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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Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and - I'd be happy to link to you. -

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