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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, a kernel, and a shell.
 For a really minimal system, you can even use the busybox shell (not Bourne compatible, but very small and quite usable), and the busybox vi editor.
 <p>

 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>
 <p>


 <h3> Screenshot </h3>

 <p> Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox
 is now available <a href="screenshot.html"> right here</a>


 <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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 <ul>

 	<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>
     <br>

 	     BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there.  This
 	     release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi.  The vi applet,
 	     contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
 	     22k.  This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
 	     There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
 	     the 0.50 release which are now fixed.  Another critical bug in
 	     0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
 	     deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
 	     <p>

 	     There are a number of improvements in this release as well.  For
 	     one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved.  Dmitry Zakharov
 	     added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
 	     compliant for HTTP 1.1.  The mechanism for including utility
 	     functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone.  Now
 	     all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
 	     maintaining utility functions much simpler.  And BusyBox now
 	     compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
 	     for letting me use their system!).
 	     <p>
 	     You can read the
 	     <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
 	     complete details.  BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
 	     <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
 	     <p>Have Fun!
 	     <p>

     <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>

     <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
     "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
     image</a>. Here's how you use it:

     <ol>

 	    <li> <a href= "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img">
 	    Download the image</a>

 	    <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
 	    of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>

 	    <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.

     </ol>

     <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:

     <pre>
 	    mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
 	    cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
 	    umount /mnt
 	    gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
 	    mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
     </pre>


     <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
     <br>

 	     This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
 	     and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs.  Tab completion in the
 	     shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
 	     expansion was fixed.   Tons of other things were fixed or made
 	     smaller.  For a fairly complete overview, see the
 	     <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
 	     <p>
 	     lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
 	     now behaves itself quite nicely.  It really is quite usable as
 	     long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
 	     Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
 	     environment variable expansion work great.  But we have found that
 	     this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
 	     framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior.  So the first order of
 	     business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
 	     currently in progress at
 	     <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
 	     <p>


     <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
     <br>

 	     Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
 	     things made nicer.  Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
 	     For a list of the most interesting changes
 	     you might want to look at the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
 	     <p>
 	     Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
 	     work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
 	     out of town.
 	     <p>
 	     <em>Special Note</em><br>

 	     BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
 	     shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
 	     Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release.  A new
 	     shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
 	     construction.  This new shell is being developed by Larry
 	     Doolittle, and could use all of our help.  Please see the work in
 	     progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
 	     and help out if you can.  This shell will be included in the next
 	     release of BusyBox.
 	     <p>

     <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
     <br>

 	     This release fixes lots and lots of bugs.  This has had some very
 	     rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean.  The usual tar
 	     update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
 	     optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
 	     that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in.  Applets are
 	     now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
 	     shell) much faster.  For the new debian-installer (for Debian
 	     woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
 	     <p>
 	     The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
 	     the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
 	     <p>
 	     Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
 	     this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
 	     <p>


     <li> <b>Old News</b>
     <br>
 	     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>.

 	<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>.

 	<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
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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.
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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.
     <p>

     <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>

     <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>

     <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
     <p>

     <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>.
     <p>

     <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
     <p>

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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:

 <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>

     <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>

 </ul>

 <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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	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, a kernel, and a shell.
	For a really minimal system, you can even use the busybox shell (not Bourne compatible, but very small and quite usable), and the busybox vi editor.
	<p>

	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>
	<p>


	<h3> Screenshot </h3>

	<p> Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox
	is now available <a href="screenshot.html"> right here</a>


	<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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	<ul>

	<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>
	<br>

	BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
	release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
	contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
	22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
	There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
	the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
	0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
	deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
	<p>

	There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
	one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
	added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
	compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
	functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
	all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
	maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
	compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
	for letting me use their system!).
	<p>
	You can read the
	<a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
	complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
	<a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
	<p>Have Fun!
	<p>

	<li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>

	<p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
	"ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
	image</a>. Here's how you use it:

	<ol>

	<li> <a href= "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img">
	Download the image</a>

	<li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
	of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>

	<li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.

	</ol>

	<p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:

	<pre>
	mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
	cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
	umount /mnt
	gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
	mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
	</pre>


	<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
	<br>

	This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
	and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the
	shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
	expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made
	smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the
	<a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
	<p>
	lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
	now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as
	long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
	Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
	environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that
	this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
	framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of
	business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
	currently in progress at
	<a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.
	<p>


	<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
	<br>

	Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller
	things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
	For a list of the most interesting changes
	you might want to look at the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
	<p>
	Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
	work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been
	out of town.
	<p>
	<em>Special Note</em><br>

	BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
	shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
	Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new
	shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
	construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry
	Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in
	progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a>
	and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next
	release of BusyBox.
	<p>

	<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
	<br>

	This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very
	rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar
	update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
	optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
	that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are
	now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
	shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian
	woody) a .udeb can now be generated.
	<p>
	The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading
	the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
	<p>
	Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to
	this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
	<p>


	<li> <b>Old News</b>
	<br>
	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>.

	<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>.

	<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
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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.
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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.
	<p>

	<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>

	<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>

	<li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
	<p>

	<li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>.
	<p>

	<li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
	<p>

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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:

	<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>

	<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>

	</ul>

	<p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to
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