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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.
 <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>.


 <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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 <ul>

     <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
     <p>

     I 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 I believe 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.
     <p>

     I've personally tested this release out
     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="ftp://busybox.net/busybox/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="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
     <p>
     And please read the news item for the 18th as well.  Have Fun.<br> -Erik
     <p>

     <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>

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     I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
     to sell the domain name -- for $250.  He also owns busybox.org but
     will not part with it...  I will then need to pay the registry fee
     for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
     initially cost about $300.  I would like to host busybox.net on my
     home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
     but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
     I am paying for.  Did you know that so far this month, there
     have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads?  I don't
     even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires.  For the
     time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
     bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them.  If I
     start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
     will start costing some money.
     <p>

     I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
     idea at all (big surprise).   It turns out &lt;insert argument
     where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
     about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
     busybox.  She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
     mailing list and web page.  So...
     <p>

     I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
     up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs.  I
     know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
     individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
     contribute back a bit.  So if everyone could please help out, that
     would be wonderful!
     <p>


     <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
     <br>

 	     This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
 	     up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
 	     the last few weeks.  Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
 	     serious has shown up.  This release only fixes bugs -- no
 	     new features, no new applets.  So without further ado,
 	     here it is.  Come and get it.
 	     <p>
 	     The
 	     <a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
 	     the details.  As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
 	     <a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
 	     <p>Have Fun!
 	     <p>


     <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.

 	     <p>

 	     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://busybox.net/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 busybox.net.
 	     <p>
 	     Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="ftp://busybox.net/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>

 	     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.

 	     <p>
 	     The
 	     <a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
 	     the details.  As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
 	     <a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
 	     <p>Have Fun!
 	     <p>


     <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
     <br>

 	     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).

 	     <p>
 	     The
 	     <a href="ftp://busybox.net/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://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
 	     <p>Have Fun!
 	     <p>


 	<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>Old News</b>
     <br>
 	     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="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
 	anonymous
 	<a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
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 	<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="ftp://busybox.net/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://busybox.net/busybox/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.
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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.busybox.net/">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://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:

 <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>

     <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> <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>

 </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, /etc, and a kernel.
	<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>.


	<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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	<ul>

	<li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
	<p>

	I 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 I believe 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.
	<p>

	I've personally tested this release out
	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="ftp://busybox.net/busybox/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="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
	<p>
	And please read the news item for the 18th as well. Have Fun.<br> -Erik
	<p>

	<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>

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	I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
	to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
	will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
	for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
	initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
	home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
	but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
	I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
	have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
	even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
	time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
	bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
	start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
	will start costing some money.
	<p>

	I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
	idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument
	where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas
	about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
	busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
	mailing list and web page. So...
	<p>

	I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
	up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
	know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
	individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
	contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
	would be wonderful!
	<p>


	<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
	<br>

	This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
	up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
	the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
	serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
	new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
	here it is. Come and get it.
	<p>
	The
	<a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
	the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
	<a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
	<p>Have Fun!
	<p>


	<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.

	<p>

	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://busybox.net/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 busybox.net.
	<p>
	Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="ftp://busybox.net/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>

	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.

	<p>
	The
	<a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
	the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
	<a href="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
	<p>Have Fun!
	<p>


	<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
	<br>

	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).

	<p>
	The
	<a href="ftp://busybox.net/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://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/busybox</a>.
	<p>Have Fun!
	<p>


	<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>Old News</b>
	<br>
	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="ftp://busybox.net/busybox">ftp://busybox.net/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://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
	anonymous
	<a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
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	<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="ftp://busybox.net/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://busybox.net/busybox/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.
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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.
	<p>

	<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>

	<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://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:

	<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>

	<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> <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>

	</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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