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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 a kernel, a shell (such as ash),
 and an editor (such as elvis-tiny or ae).
 <p>

 BusyBox is now maintained by
 <a href="http://www.xmission.com/~andersen/erik/erik.html">
 Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by
 <a href="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</a>.
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 BusyBox is licensed under the
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>


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 <ul>

     <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
     <br>
         Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
 	For example, with the following test app:
 <pre>
 	#include &lt;syslog.h&gt;

 	int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
 	{
 	    openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
 	    while(1) {
 	        syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
 	        sleep(delay);
 	    }
 	    closelog();
 	    return(0);
 	};

 	int main(void)
 	{
 	    if (fork()==0)
 	        do_log("A", 2);
 	    do_log("B", 3);
 	}
 </pre>
 	it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B".  As released in 0.43 only stuff
 	from "A" would have been logged.  This means that if init tries to log something
 	while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
 	<p>
 	Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
 	<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
 	Thanks Karl!


     <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
     <br>
         I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
 	good about things.  This is definitely the most stable, solid release
 	so far.  A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
 	have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
 	freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep.  Tar has been completely
 	rewritten from scratch.  Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
 	More details are available in the
 	<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
 	Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
 	<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.

 	<p>
 	Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
 	and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
 	Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
 	Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
 	There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
 	<p>

 	You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.

     <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
     <br>
         Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
         do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
         to poke at.  This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
         5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
         tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
         at it).  Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
         the Linux Router Project folks asked for it).  This also has a pre-release
         of the micro shell I have been writing.  This pre-release should be stable
         enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
         changes I still want to make.
         <p>
 	The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
 	Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.

     <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
     <br>
 	I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
 	lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
 	He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
 	it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all.  Despite the
 	fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
 	and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
 	(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
 	down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
 	(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
 	contrary).
 	<p>
 	Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
 	labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
 	<p>
 	So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
 	Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady.  I expect
 	to have a release sometime during the first week of April.  This release will
 	include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
 	re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
 	accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
 	problems.


     <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
     <br>

 	     This is the most solid BusyBox release so far.  Many, many
 		bugs have been fixed.   See the
 <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.

 		Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
 		filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
 		behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
 		loop devices.  Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
 		Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
 		their hard work on this release of BusyBox.  Please pound
 		on it and let me know if you find any bugs.

     <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
     <br>

 	     This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
 		mkdir, syslogd, and init.  New apps include wc, hostid,
 		logname, tty, whoami, and yes.  New features include loop device
 		support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
 		The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.

     <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
     <br>

 	     This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
 	     syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
 	     New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
 	     In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
 	     in some cases produced serious security problems.
 	     As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.

     <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
     <br>
 	     I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
 		to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox.  This website
 		will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
 		contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
 		what arguments its apps support, etc.

     <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
     <br>
 	     This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
 	     the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head.  A full
 	     changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
     <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
     <br>
 	     This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
 		and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
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 Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
 <ul>
     <li> <a href="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 spent
 		a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to make them
 		fairly comprehensive for the BusyBox 0.43 release.  If you find any
 		errors (factual, grammatical, whatever) please let me know.

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     <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/shells/ash.html">ash</a>
     is a very small Bourne shell. If you need a shell for your embedded systems, this is it.
     <p>

     <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/ae.html">ae</a>
     is a tiny full-screen text editor with both modal (vi-like) and modeless
     (emacs-like) modes, determined by an ae.rc config file. It makes a nice editor
     if people that don't know "vi" will need to work on your embedded system.
     <p>

     <li> <a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/elvis-tiny.html">elvis-tiny</a>
     is based on a 1991 Minix version of the elvis "vi" clone. It behaves as one would
     expect a minimalist vi to behave, and is very small.
     <p>

     <li> <a href="http://www.asty.org/nano/">nano</a>
     A small GPLed pico clone that makes a nice editor for people that don't know "vi".
     <p>

     <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/iproute.html">iproute</a>
     Much more flexible replacement for ifconfig, route, etc. It is quite small, and for
     most networking applications, it is all you need. It also provides support for extremely
     advanced networking and provides Quality of Service(QoS) support, but most people will
     just need to use the "ip" command and will not even need to install the rest.
     <p>

     <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/pump.html">Pump</a>
     This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. When compiled properly, it
     gives you dhcp client support for about 35k.
     <p>

     <li><a href="http://www.pcug.org.au/~dbell/">sash</a>
     The Stand Alone SHell.  This is a small shell (not Bourne shell compatible)
     that is similar to busybox in that it provides a number of common utilities as built-ins.
     <p>

     <li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/newlib/">NewLib</a>
     This is a small C library intended for use on embedded systems.  If you are finding
     GNU libc is a bit too big for your applications, try NewLib and it may help.
     <p>

     <li><a href="http://linuxassembly.org/asmutils.html">asmutils</a>
     asmutils is similar to BusyBox in that it provides a number of common application
     for embedded systems that are very tiny.  In fact, they are a _lot_ smaller than the
     equivalent apps in busybox -- but the price you pay for the size is reduced portability
     (x86 only) and interfaces that are tied directly to a particular kernel (no libc involved).
     <p>

     <li><a href="http://tinylogin.lineo.com/">TinyLogin</a>
     is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords,
     and similar tasks, and which nicely complements BusyBox.
     <p>

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 I know of the following projects that use BusyBox
 <ul>
     <li> <a href="http://www.lineo.com/products/embedix.html">Lineo Embedix Linux</a>
     <li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian 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>

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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/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html">
     Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
     <p>

     <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
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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 a kernel, a shell (such as ash),
	and an editor (such as elvis-tiny or ae).
	<p>

	BusyBox is now maintained by
	<a href="http://www.xmission.com/~andersen/erik/erik.html">
	Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by
	<a href="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</a>.
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	BusyBox is licensed under the
	<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>


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	<p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
	<br>
	Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
	For example, with the following test app:
	<pre>
	#include <syslog.h>

	int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
	{
	openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
	while(1) {
	syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
	sleep(delay);
	}
	closelog();
	return(0);
	};

	int main(void)
	{
	if (fork()==0)
	do_log("A", 2);
	do_log("B", 3);
	}
	</pre>
	it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
	from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
	while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
	<p>
	Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
	<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
	Thanks Karl!


	<p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
	<br>
	I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
	good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
	so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
	have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
	freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
	rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
	More details are available in the
	<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
	Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
	<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.

	<p>
	Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
	and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
	Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
	Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
	There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
	<p>

	You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.

	<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
	<br>
	Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
	do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
	to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
	5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
	tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
	at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
	the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
	of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
	enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
	changes I still want to make.
	<p>
	The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
	Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.

	<p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
	<br>
	I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
	lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
	He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
	it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
	fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
	and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
	(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
	down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
	(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
	contrary).
	<p>
	Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
	labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
	<p>
	So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
	Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
	to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
	include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
	re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
	accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
	problems.


	<p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
	<br>

	This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
	bugs have been fixed. See the
	<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.

	Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
	filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
	behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
	loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
	Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
	their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
	on it and let me know if you find any bugs.

	<p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
	<br>

	This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
	mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
	logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
	support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
	The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.

	<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
	<br>

	This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
	syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
	New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
	In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
	in some cases produced serious security problems.
	As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.

	<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
	<br>
	I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
	to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
	will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
	contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
	what arguments its apps support, etc.

	<p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
	<br>
	This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
	the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
	changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
	<p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
	<br>
	This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
	and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
	</ul>


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	Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
	<ul>
	<li> <a href="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 spent
	a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to make them
	fairly comprehensive for the BusyBox 0.43 release. If you find any
	errors (factual, grammatical, whatever) please let me know.

	<li> More documentation will follow.
	</ul>


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	<ul>

	<li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/shells/ash.html">ash</a>
	is a very small Bourne shell. If you need a shell for your embedded systems, this is it.
	<p>

	<li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/ae.html">ae</a>
	is a tiny full-screen text editor with both modal (vi-like) and modeless
	(emacs-like) modes, determined by an ae.rc config file. It makes a nice editor
	if people that don't know "vi" will need to work on your embedded system.
	<p>

	<li> <a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/elvis-tiny.html">elvis-tiny</a>
	is based on a 1991 Minix version of the elvis "vi" clone. It behaves as one would
	expect a minimalist vi to behave, and is very small.
	<p>

	<li> <a href="http://www.asty.org/nano/">nano</a>
	A small GPLed pico clone that makes a nice editor for people that don't know "vi".
	<p>

	<li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/iproute.html">iproute</a>
	Much more flexible replacement for ifconfig, route, etc. It is quite small, and for
	most networking applications, it is all you need. It also provides support for extremely
	advanced networking and provides Quality of Service(QoS) support, but most people will
	just need to use the "ip" command and will not even need to install the rest.
	<p>

	<li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/pump.html">Pump</a>
	This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. When compiled properly, it
	gives you dhcp client support for about 35k.
	<p>

	<li><a href="http://www.pcug.org.au/~dbell/">sash</a>
	The Stand Alone SHell. This is a small shell (not Bourne shell compatible)
	that is similar to busybox in that it provides a number of common utilities as built-ins.
	<p>

	<li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/newlib/">NewLib</a>
	This is a small C library intended for use on embedded systems. If you are finding
	GNU libc is a bit too big for your applications, try NewLib and it may help.
	<p>

	<li><a href="http://linuxassembly.org/asmutils.html">asmutils</a>
	asmutils is similar to BusyBox in that it provides a number of common application
	for embedded systems that are very tiny. In fact, they are a _lot_ smaller than the
	equivalent apps in busybox -- but the price you pay for the size is reduced portability
	(x86 only) and interfaces that are tied directly to a particular kernel (no libc involved).
	<p>

	<li><a href="http://tinylogin.lineo.com/">TinyLogin</a>
	is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords,
	and similar tasks, and which nicely complements BusyBox.
	<p>

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	I know of the following projects that use BusyBox
	<ul>
	<li> <a href="http://www.lineo.com/products/embedix.html">Lineo Embedix Linux</a>
	<li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian 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>

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



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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/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html">
	Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
	<p>

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

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