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| <A NAME="intro"> <BIG><B> |
| The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux |
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| 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. |
| <p> |
| 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 now maintained by |
| <a href="http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html"> |
| Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by |
| <a href="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</a>. |
| <p> |
| BusyBox is licensed under the |
| <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>. |
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| <h3> Screenshot </h3> |
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| <p> Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox |
| is now available <a href="screenshot.html">right here</a>. |
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| <H3>Mailing List Information</h3> |
| BusyBox now has a <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>! |
| To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>. |
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| <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://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html">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. |
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| <p> |
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| 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://oss.lineo.com/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 oss.lineo.com. |
| <p> |
| Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/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> |
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| 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. |
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| <p> |
| The |
| <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from |
| <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. |
| <p>Have Fun! |
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| <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> |
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| 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). |
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| <p> |
| The |
| <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. |
| <p>Have Fun! |
| <p> |
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| <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> |
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| 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>. |
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| <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> |
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| <li> <b>Old News</b> |
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| For the old news, visit <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>. |
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| <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from |
| <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. |
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| <li> A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU |
| gzipped tarball <a href="busybox.tar.gz"> right here</a>. |
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| <li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable |
| <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, |
| anonymous |
| <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and |
| for those that are actively contributing there is even |
| <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. |
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| Current documentation for BusyBox includes: |
| <ul> |
| <li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. |
| 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 <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to |
| make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual, |
| grammatical, whatever) please let me know. |
| <li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/README">README</a>. |
| This is the README file included in the busybox source release. |
| <li> <a href="http://bugs.lineo.com/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox Bugs</a>. |
| Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed? |
| <li> If you need more help, the BusyBox |
| <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is |
| a good place to start. |
| </ul> |
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| <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/"> |
| Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br> |
| The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written |
| by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website. |
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| <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/"> |
| Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> |
| <p> |
| <li><a href="http://tinylogin.lineo.com/">TinyLogin</a> |
| is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords, |
| and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox. |
| <p> |
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| <li><a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html">uClibc</a> |
| 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 systems. |
| <p> |
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| <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>. |
| <p> |
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| <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>. |
| <p> |
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| <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development. |
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| <p> 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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| <ul> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.lineo.com/products/embedix_linux/">Lineo Embedix Linux</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</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> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix Installer</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux 2.0 SBC</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS project</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your Linux Disk</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on nanoEngine</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/"> Floppyfw</a> |
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| <li> <a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/"> Midori Linux</a> - <a href= |
| "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html"> Article on |
| Midori Linux</a> on <a href= "http://www.wired.com"> Wired</a>. Quote from |
| Erik at the top of <a href= |
| "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html"> this |
| page</a> |
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| <li> <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal Server Project</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a> |
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| </ul> |
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| <p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to |
| you. |
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