<ul>
+ <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
+ <p>
+
+ I 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 believe it should take care
+ of most everyone's needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
+ been working on in CVS (with the wonderful new buildsystem) ready
+ to release. 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.
+ <p>
+
+ I've personally tested this release out
+ 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 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>
+ for <small>most of</small> the details. The last release was
+ <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should be even better.
+ <p>
+ As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
+ <p>
+ And please read the news item for the 18th as well. Have Fun.<br> -Erik
+ <p>
+
<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
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I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
- to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org
- but will not part with it... I will then need to pay the
- registry fee, so this will initially cost about $300. I would
- also like to host busybox.net on my home machine (codepoet.org)
- so I have full control over the system, but I would need to
- increase the level of bandwidth I am paying for (there have been
- over 1 Gigabyte of busybox source downloads for the month of
- November alone -- other months have had more).
+ to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
+ will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
+ for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
+ initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
+ home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
+ but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
+ I am paying for. Did you know that for the month far this month, there
+ have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
+ even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
+ time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
+ bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
+ start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
+ will start costing some money.
<p>
I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
- idea at all (big surprise). It turns out, she has better ideas
+ idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
+ where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
mailing list and web page. So...
<p>
- I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit we could pick
- up the busybox.net domain name, and cover the bandwidth costs. I
+ I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
+ up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
- individuals -- hopefully companies willing to contribute back a
- bit. So if everyone could please help out, that would be
- wonderful!
+ individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
+ contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
+ would be wonderful!
<p>
- p.s. I plan on updating the Changelog later this evening, and
- releasing busybox 0.60.2 later tonight. I will probably just merge
- in vodz' msh since it fixes known problems, and since I haven't had
- time to make it uClinux safe. Changelog entries for busybox.stable
- are welcome.
- <p>
<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
<br>
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
<li> <a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2 installer</a>
- <li> <a
- href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">Slackware Installer</a>
+ <li> <a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">Slackware Installer</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux Router Project </a>
<li> <a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a>