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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, a kernel, and a shell. -For a really minimal system, you can even use the busybox shell (not Bourne compatible, but very small and quite usable), and the busybox vi editor. -

- -BusyBox is now maintained by - -Erik Andersen, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by -Lineo. -

-BusyBox is 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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  • 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.) - -

  • 10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released -
    - - BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This - release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, - contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only - 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. - There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in - the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in - 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially - deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. -

    - - There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For - one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov - added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC - compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility - functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now - all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes - maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now - compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters - for letting me use their system!). -

    - You can read the - changelog for - complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from - ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox. -

    Have Fun! -

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  • Busybox Boot-Floppy Image - -

    Because you asked for it, we have made available a Busybox boot floppy - image. Here's how you use it: - -

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    1. - Download the image - -
    2. dd it onto a floppy like so: dd if=busybox.floppy.img - of=/dev/fd0 ; sync - -
    3. Pop it in a machine and boot up. - -
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    If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: - - 

    -	    mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos        
-	    cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp                          
-	    umount /mnt           
-	    gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
-	    mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
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  • 15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released -
    - - This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, - and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the - shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable - expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made - smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the - changelog. -

    - lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it - now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as - long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. - Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and - environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that - this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible - framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of - business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell - currently in progress at - Larry Doolittle's website. -

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  • 27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released -
    - - Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller - things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. - For a list of the most interesting changes - you might want to look at the changelog. -

    - Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their - work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been - out of town. -

    - Special Note
    - - BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox - shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. - Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new - shell that will eventually replace lash is already under - construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry - Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in - progress on Larry's website - and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next - release of BusyBox. -

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  • 13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released -
    - - This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very - rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar - update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is - optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know - that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are - now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox - shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian - woody) a .udeb can now be generated. -

    - The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading - the changelog. -

    - Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to - this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. -

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  • Old News -
    - For the old news, visit the old news page. -
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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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- - 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. -
  • 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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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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