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| <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td> |
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| <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= "intro"><big> |
| <b>The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</b> |
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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 GNU |
| fileutils, shellutils, etc. 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 provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any |
| small or embedded system. |
| |
| <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.</p> |
| |
| <p>BusyBox is maintained by <a href= |
| "http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik |
| Andersen</a>, and licensed under the <a href= |
| "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL |
| PUBLIC LICENSE</a>.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Screenshot</h3> |
| |
| <p>Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of |
| BusyBox is now available <a href= |
| "screenshot.html">right here</a>.</p> |
| |
| <h3>Mailing List Information</h3> |
| BusyBox has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>.<br> |
| To subscribe, go and visit <a href="/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>. |
| <br> |
| Before asking questions on the mailing list |
| you should probably first search the mailing list archives... |
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| <p> |
| <li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p> |
| |
| Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable |
| series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of |
| testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of |
| bugs, and these problems have now been fixed. |
| |
| <p> |
| |
| Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up |
| with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added, |
| init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and |
| 'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init. |
| an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows |
| read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the |
| 'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were |
| tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed. |
| <p> |
| |
| If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this |
| release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch |
| was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch. |
| That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the |
| BusyBox mailing list. |
| <p> |
| |
| The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of |
| people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be |
| fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that |
| is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 |
| release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If |
| necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th. |
| Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem |
| turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by |
| then... |
| <p> |
| |
| The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all |
| the details. As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. |
| |
| <p>Have Fun! |
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| <p> |
| <li><b>Old News</b><br> |
| For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the |
| old news page</a>.</li> |
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| "sponsors"><big><b>Sponsors</b></big></a></td> |
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| Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their |
| support! They have provided money for equipment and |
| bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project, |
| consider these fine companies! |
| |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br> |
| Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br> |
| Embedded open source consulting in Europe. |
| </li> |
| |
| <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br> |
| Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc |
| development. |
| </li> |
| |
| </ul> |
| Several individuals have also contributed. If you have |
| already contributed and would like your name added |
| here, just let me know. If you would like to be a |
| BusyBox sponsor, email <a href= |
| "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>. |
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| Source for the latest release can always be |
| downloaded from <a href="downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| <p> |
| |
| BusyBox now has <b>two</b> CVS trees. The "busybox-stable" tree |
| contains the older 0.60.x stable series. The "busybox" tree contains |
| the latest 1.0.0-preX development version of busybox.<br> |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href= "downloads/snapshots/">Daily Snapshots of the the latest |
| stable, and the latest development CVS source trees can be found right here</a>. |
| <br> |
| </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">Click here to browse the CVS |
| tree for the 1.0.0-preX development version of BusyBox</a> |
| </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox.stable/">Click here to browse |
| the CVS tree for the stable 0.60.x version of BusyBox</a>. |
| </li><li>Anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS |
| access</a> is available. |
| </li><li>For those that are actively contributing there is |
| even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td> |
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| Current documentation for BusyBox includes: |
| |
| <ul> |
| <li><a href= |
| "downloads/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> |
| |
| <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is |
| the README file included in the busybox source |
| release.</li> |
| |
| <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href= |
| "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to |
| start.</li> |
| </ul> |
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| <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= |
| "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td> |
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| <ul> |
| <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.</li> |
| |
| <li><a href= |
| "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat |
| AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li> |
| |
| <li><a href= |
| "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a |
| nice embedded tool for handling authentication, |
| changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely |
| complements BusyBox.</li> |
| |
| <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is |
| a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for |
| embedded systems.</li> |
| |
| <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">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 Linux systems. |
| </li> |
| </ul> |
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| <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= |
| "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using BusyBox</b></big></a></td> |
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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:</p> |
| |
| <ul> |
| |
| |
| <li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> a configurable |
| means for building your own busybox/uClibc based system systems. |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/"> |
| Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2 |
| installer</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/"> |
| Slackware Installer</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux install/boot CDs</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.mandrake.com/">The Mandrake installer</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://Leaf.SourceForge.net">Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall (the sucessor of the Linux Router Project) supporting all sorts of embedded Linux gateways, routers, wireless routers, and firewalls,</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix |
| Installer</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux |
| 2.0 SBC</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS |
| project</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your |
| Linux Disk</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - |
| VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make |
| CD-ROM recovery</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on |
| nanoEngine</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a> |
| |
| </li><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> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal |
| Server Project</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href= |
| "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition |
| Image</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil |
| Hat Linux</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://familiar.handhelds.org/">Familiar Linux</a> - a linux distribution for handheld computers |
| </li><li><a href="http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/">Timo's Rescue CD Set</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://sf.net/projects/netstation/">Netstation</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.fiwix.org/">GNU/Fiwix Operating System</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.softcraft.com/">Generations Linux</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://systemimager.org/relatedprojects/">SystemImager / System Installation Suite</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.bablokb.de/gendist/">GENDIST distribution generator</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/">DIET-PC embedded Linux thin client distribution</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/">BYZantine Gnu/Linux</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">Darik's Boot and Nuke</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.timesys.com/">TimeSys real-time Linux</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://movix.sf.net/">MoviX</a> -- boots from CD and automatically plays every video file on the CD |
| </li><li><a href="http://katamaran.sourceforge.net">katamaran</a>Linux, X11, xfce windowmanager, based on BusyBox |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/simplygnustep">Prometheus SimplyGNUstep</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.renyi.hu/~ekho/lowlife/">lowlife</a>A documentation project on how to make your own uClibc-based systems and floppy. |
| </li><li><a href="http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/">Metadistros</a>a project to allow you easily make Live-CD distributions. |
| </li><li><a href="http://salvare.sourceforge.net/">Salvare</a>More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk. |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.stresslinux.org/">stresslinux</a>minimal linux distribution running from a bootable cdrom or via PXE. |
| </li><li><a href="http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/">thinstation</a>convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thinclients. |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.uhulinux.hu/">UHU-Linux Hungary</a> |
| |
| </li><li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.isilver-inc.com/">I-Silver Linux appliance servers</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus PDA</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.cyclades.com/">Cyclades-TS and other Cyclades products</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/wireless/wbr-g54.htm">Buffalo WBR-G54 wireless router</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508">Linksys WRT54G - Wireless-G Broadband Router</a> |
| </li><li><a href="http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/topics/sbtopic_005_truemobile.htm">Dell TrueMobile 1184</a> |
| |
| |
| </ul> |
| |
| <p>Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and |
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| Andersen</a><br> |
| The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik |
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