<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 I 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 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.
+ <li> <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
<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="http://busybox.net/downloads/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="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</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>
+ 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
+ appologize for the abrupt move off of busybox.line.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).
+ <p> My DSL line (where busybox.net is living) is currently
+ struggling a bit under the load. To address this, I'm making
+ arrangements to get busybox.net co-located directly at an ISP
+ belonging to a friend of mine.
+ <a href="http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> (author
+ of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated his <a
+ href="http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
+ for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org on. Once the system is
+ co-located, that should should completely eliminate the current
+ speed problems. Hopefully, too, we can get some mirror sites set
+ up soon, to help distribute to load a bit.
+
+ <p>
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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
- 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 so 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>
+ 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 paying for
+ needed hardware upgrades (Mark's NetWinder currently has just 64Meg
+ of memory -- I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of ram and a larger
+ hard drive for the box today). As demonstrated when google
+ spidered the site the other day, the extra ram should really
+ help... So far, donations received have been sufficient to cover
+ almost all expenses. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to everyone
+ that has contributed! Right now, I have enough to keep
+ busybox.net running for the time being. I'll keep you posted if
+ that changes.
+ <br>
+ -Erik
- I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
- 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
- know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
- individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
- contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
- would be wonderful!
+ <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
<p>
-
- <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
- <br>
-
- 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 <em>too</em>
- 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.
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
- <br>
- I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
- BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
- and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> 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.
-
- <p>
-
- Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
- use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
- to give it a try by downloading and compiling
- <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
- 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 busybox.net.
- <p>
- Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
- BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
- a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
- the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
- to view the tutorial.
- <p>
-
- Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
- version number of this release, let me point out that this release
- is <em>not</em> 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.
-
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
- the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
- <br>
-
- 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 <em>many</em> 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).
-
- <p>
- The
- <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 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
+ 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.
+ <p>
+
+ 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 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/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="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
- <p>Have Fun!
- <p>
-
-
- <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
- <br>
- 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 <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
-
- <p> (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.)
- <p>
+ <p>
+ Have Fun.<br> -Erik
+ <p>
<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
<hr>
+
+
+ <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
+
+ <!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
+ <center>
+ Click here to help buy busybox.net!
+ <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
+ <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
+ <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
+ <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox/Buy busybox.net">
+ <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
+ <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
+ <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
+ </form>
+ </center>
+ <!-- End PayPal Logo -->
+
+ 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
+ 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 so 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 <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
+ know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
+ 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>
+
+
+ <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ 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 <em>too</em>
+ 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.
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
+ <br>
+ I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
+ BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
+ and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> 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.
+
+ <p>
+
+ Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
+ use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
+ to give it a try by downloading and compiling
+ <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
+ 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 busybox.net.
+ <p>
+ Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
+ BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
+ a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
+ the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
+ to view the tutorial.
+ <p>
+
+ Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
+ version number of this release, let me point out that this release
+ is <em>not</em> 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.
+
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
+ the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ 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 <em>many</em> 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).
+
+ <p>
+ The
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 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
+ <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+
+ <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
+ <br>
+ 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 <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
+
+ <p> (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.)
+ <p>
+
<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
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