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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. |
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| 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 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> |
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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://busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>! |
| To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>. |
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| <li> <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> |
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| 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). |
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| 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. |
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| 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! |
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| <br> |
| -Erik |
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| <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> |
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| 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. |
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| 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="http://busybox.net/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> |
| As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. |
| <p> |
| Have Fun.<br> -Erik |
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| <li> <b>Old News</b> |
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| For the old news, visit <a href="http://busybox.net/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>. |
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| <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, |
| anonymous |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and |
| for those that are actively contributing there is even |
| <a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. |
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| Current documentation for BusyBox includes: |
| <ul> |
| <li> <a href="http://busybox.net/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> <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/README">README</a>. |
| This is the README file included in the busybox source release. |
| <li> <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/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://busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is |
| a good place to start. |
| </ul> |
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| Important Links |
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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> |
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| <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/"> |
| Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> |
| <p> |
| <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. |
| <p> |
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| <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> |
| is a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for embedded systems. |
| <p> |
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| <li><a href="http://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 systems. |
| <p> |
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| <li> <a href="http://busybox.net/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>. |
| <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: |
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| <ul> |
| <li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2 installer</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">Slackware Installer</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> |
| <li> <a href="http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a> |
| <li> <a href="http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</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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