<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
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+ <li>
+ <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
+
+ <p>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).</p>
+
+ <p>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, <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. 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.</p>
+
+ <p><!--
+ <center>
+ Click here to help support 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">
+ <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
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+ <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
+ </form>
+ </center>
+ -->
+ 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 <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
+ everyone that has contributed!<br>
+ -Erik</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li>
+ <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
+
+ <p>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>
+
+ <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=
+ "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>
+
+ <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
+ <a href=
+ "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>Have Fun.<br>
+ -Erik</p>
+ </li>
+
<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
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