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<ul>
<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
<hr>
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here it is. Come and get it.
<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
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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="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/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>
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<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
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<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
<a href="downloads/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="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
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for letting me use their system!).
<p>
You can read the
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</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=
"http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
"downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
image</a>. Here's how you use it:
<ol>
<li> <a href= "http://busybox.net/downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
<li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
Download the image</a>
<li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
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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="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
<a href="downloads/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
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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="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/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
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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="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
the <a href="downloads/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.
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renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging.
There are the usual tar updates. Most apps now use getopt for
more correct option parsing.
See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
for complete details.
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people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
for complete details.
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release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
details).
<p>
Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
<a href="http://busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
<a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
publically browsable
<a href="http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
<a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
anonymous
<a href="http://busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
<a href="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>.
<a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
<p>
Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release. Somehow 0.44 got announced
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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://busybox.net/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem.
Thanks Karl!
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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://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
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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://busybox.net/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
<p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
<br>
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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://busybox.net/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">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>
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This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
bugs have been fixed. See the
<a href="ftp://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
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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://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
<p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
<br>
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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://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
<p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
<br>
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<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://busybox.net/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
changelog can be found <a href="downloads/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,
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<ul>
<li> <a href="http://busybox.net/">Take me back to http://busybox.net/</a>.
<li> <a href="/">Take me back to http://busybox.net/</a>.
<p>
<li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
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Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
<p>
<li> <a href="http://busybox.net/software.html">Cool embedded software</a>.
<p>
</ul>