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| <ul>
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
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|     <hr>
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| 
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| 
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|       <li>
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| 	<b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b> 
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| 
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| 	<p>Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox
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| 	users, we have been able to purchase busybox.net
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| 	(which is where you are probably reading this).
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| 	Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
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| 	living on my home system (at the end of my DSL
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| 	line). I apologize for the abrupt move off of
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| 	busybox.lineo.com. Unfortunately, I no longer have
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| 	the access needed to keep that system updated (for
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| 	example, you might notice the daily snapshots there
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| 	stopped some time ago).</p>
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| 
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| 	<p>Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home
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| 	server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately,
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| 	the load on them is quite heavy. To address this,
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| 	I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net
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| 	co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the
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| 	co-location effort, <a href=
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| 	"http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a>
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| 	(author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated
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| 	his <a href=
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| 	"http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
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| 	for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this
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| 	system is co-located, the current speed problems
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| 	should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too,
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| 	some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror
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| 	sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.</p>
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| 
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| 	<p><!-- 
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| 	    <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
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| 	    <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
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| 	    <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
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| 	    </form>
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| 	    </center>
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| 	    -->
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| 	 Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox
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| 	donations, let me assure you that no one is getting
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| 	rich here. All BusyBox and uClibc donations will be
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| 	spent paying for bandwidth and needed hardware
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| 	upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
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| 	has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
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| 	google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
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| 	not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
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| 	ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
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| 	far, donations received have been sufficient to
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| 	cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
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| 	have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
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| 	we are ok. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
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| 	everyone that has contributed!<br>
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| 	 -Erik</p>
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|       </li>
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| 
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|       <li>
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| 	<b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> 
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| 
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| 	<p>We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox
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| 	0.60.2 (stable) is now released to the world. This
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| 	one is primarily a bugfix release for the stable
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| 	series, and it should take care of most everyone's
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| 	needs till we can get the nice new stuff we have
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| 	been working on in CVS ready to release (with the
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| 	wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in
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| 	this release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh
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| 	(the minix shell) has been re-worked by Vladimir N.
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| 	Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
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| 	told to do complex things with backticks.</p>
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| 
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| 	<p>This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and
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| 	powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so it
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| 	should work with just about any Linux system you
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| 	throw it at. See the <a href=
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| 	"downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for <small>most
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| 	of</small> the details. The last release was
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| 	<em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should
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| 	be even better.</p>
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| 
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| 	<p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
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| 	<a href=
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| 	"downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>
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| 
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| 	<p>Have Fun.<br>
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| 	 -Erik</p>
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|       </li>
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| 
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|     <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
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|     
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|     Click here to help buy busybox.net!
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| 	<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
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| 	<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox/Buy busybox.net">
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| 
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|     I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
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|     to sell the domain name -- for $250.  He also owns busybox.org but
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|     will not part with it...  I will then need to pay the registry fee
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|     for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
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|     initially cost about $300.  I would like to host busybox.net on my
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|     home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
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|     but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth 
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|     I am paying for.  Did you know that so far this month, there
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|     have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads?  I don't
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|     even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires.  For the
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|     time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
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|     bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them.  If I 
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|     start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth 
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|     will start costing some money.
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|     <p>
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| 
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|     I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
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|     idea at all (big surprise).   It turns out <insert argument
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|     where she wins and I don't> she has better ideas 
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|     about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
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|     busybox.  She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
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|     mailing list and web page.  So...
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|     <p>
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| 
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|     I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
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|     up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs.  I
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|     know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
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|     individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to 
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|     contribute back a bit.  So if everyone could please help out, that 
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|     would be wonderful!
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|     <p>
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| 
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| 
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|     <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
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| 	     up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
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| 	     the last few weeks.  Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
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| 	     serious has shown up.  This release only fixes bugs -- no
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| 	     new features, no new applets.  So without further ado,
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| 	     here it is.  Come and get it.
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     The 
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| 	     <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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| 	     the details.  As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from 
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| 	     <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
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| 	     <p>Have Fun!
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| 	     <p>
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| 
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| 
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|     <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 	     I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
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| 	     BusyBox 0.60.0.  I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
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| 	     and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
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| 	     x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
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| 	     of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
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| 	     Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
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| 	     stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order.   This releases fixes
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| 	     a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
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| 	     cleans up a number of things.
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| 	     
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| 	     <p>
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| 
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| 	     Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can 
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| 	     use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
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| 	     to give it a try by downloading and compiling 
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| 	     <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
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| 	     You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
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| 	     Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="downloads/tutorial/index.html">
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| 	     BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing.  This requires 
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| 	     a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the 
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| 	     the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
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| 	     to view the tutorial.
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     
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| 	     Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
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| 	     version number of this release, let me point out that this release
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| 	     is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
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| 	     bit.  This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
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| 	     a new stable BusyBox release series.  If you need to rely on a
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| 	     stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
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| 	     0.60.x series.  If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
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| 	     0.60.2, etc...  This is also intended to deal with the fact that
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| 	     the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
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| 	     next release and I don't want that to break products that people
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| 	     are shipping.  To avoid that, the new build system will be
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| 	     released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
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| 	     have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number.  Once things
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| 	     stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
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| 	     I will release that as a new stable release series. 
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| 
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     The 
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| 	     <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
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| 	     the details.  As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from 
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| 	     <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
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| 	     <p>Have Fun!
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| 	     <p>
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| 
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| 
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|     <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
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| 	     BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release").  This
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| 	     release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
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| 	     of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.  This release adds
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| 	     several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
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| 	     and ash).
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| 
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     The 
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| 	     <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers 
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| 	     some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
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| 	     are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways.  As usual,
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| 	     BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from 
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| 	     <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
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| 	     <p>Have Fun!
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| 	     <p>
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| 
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| 
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| 	<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
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| 	<br> 
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| 	The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
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| 	of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
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| 	viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
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| 
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| 	<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
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| 	can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
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| 	turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
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| 	<p>
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| 
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| 
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|     <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there.  This
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| 	     release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi.  The vi applet,
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| 	     contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
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| 	     22k.  This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
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| 	     There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
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| 	     the 0.50 release which are now fixed.  Another critical bug in
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| 	     0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
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| 	     deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
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| 	     <p>
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| 
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| 	     There are a number of improvements in this release as well.  For
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| 	     one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved.  Dmitry Zakharov
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| 	     added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
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| 	     compliant for HTTP 1.1.  The mechanism for including utility
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| 	     functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone.  Now
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| 	     all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
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| 	     maintaining utility functions much simpler.  And BusyBox now
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| 	     compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
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| 	     for letting me use their system!).
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     You can read the 
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| 	     <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
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| 	     complete details.  BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from 
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| 	     <a href="downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
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| 	     <p>Have Fun!
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| 	     <p>
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| 
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|     <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
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| 
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|     <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
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|     "downloads/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
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|     image</a>. Here's how you use it:
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| 
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|     <ol>
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| 
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| 	    <li> <a href= "downloads/busybox.floppy.img">
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| 	    Download the image</a>
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| 
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| 	    <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
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| 	    of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
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| 
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| 	    <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
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| 
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|     </ol>
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| 
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|     <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
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| 
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|     <pre>
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| 	    mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos        
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| 	    cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp                          
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| 	    umount /mnt           
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| 	    gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
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| 	    mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
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|     </pre>
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| 
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| 
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|     <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty,
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| 	     and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs.  Tab completion in the
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| 	     shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable
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| 	     expansion was fixed.   Tons of other things were fixed or made
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| 	     smaller.  For a fairly complete overview, see the 
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| 	     <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it
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| 	     now behaves itself quite nicely.  It really is quite usable as
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| 	     long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer.
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| 	     Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and
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| 	     environment variable expansion work great.  But we have found that
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| 	     this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible
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| 	     framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior.  So the first order of
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| 	     business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell
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| 	     currently in progress at 
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| 	     <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>.   
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| 	     <p>
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| 
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| 
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|     <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller 
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| 	     things made nicer.  Several cleanups and improvements to the shell.
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| 	     For a list of the most interesting changes 
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| 	     you might want to look at the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. 
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their
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| 	     work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been 
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| 	     out of town.
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     <em>Special Note</em><br>
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| 
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| 	     BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox
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| 	     shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer.
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| 	     Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release.  A new
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| 	     shell that will eventually replace lash is already under
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| 	     construction.  This new shell is being developed by Larry
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| 	     Doolittle, and could use all of our help.  Please see the work in
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| 	     progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> 
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| 	     and help out if you can.  This shell will be included in the next 
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| 	     release of BusyBox.
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| 	     <p>
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| 
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|     <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This release fixes lots and lots of bugs.  This has had some very
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| 	     rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean.  The usual tar
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| 	     update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is
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| 	     optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know
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| 	     that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in.  Applets are
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| 	     now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox
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| 	     shell) much faster.  For the new debian-installer (for Debian
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| 	     woody) a .udeb can now be generated.  
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading 
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| 	     the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>. 
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to 
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| 	     this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti.
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| 	     <p>
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|     <p> <li> <b>26 September 2000 -- BusyBox 0.47 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46
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| 	     syslogd that could fork-bomb your system).  Added several new
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| 	     apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, 
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| 	     renice, xargs, and expr.  syslogd now supports network logging.
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| 	     There are the usual tar updates.  Most apps now use getopt for
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| 	     more correct option parsing.
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| 	     See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 
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| 	     for complete details.
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| 
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>11 July 2000 -- BusyBox 0.46 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This release fixes several bugs (including a ugly bug in tar,
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| 	     and fixes for NFSv3 mount support).  Added a dumpkmap to allow 
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| 	     people to dump a binary keymaps for use with 'loadkmap', and a
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| 	     completely reworked 'grep' and 'sed' which should behave better.
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| 	     BusyBox shell can now also be used as a login shell.
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| 	     See the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 
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| 	     for complete details.
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| 
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
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| 	     point.  BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc.  This
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| 	     release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
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| 	     mktemp, setkeycodes, md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which, and
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| 	     telnet.  There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
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| 	     the <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for
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| 	     details).
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     Also, some exciting infrastructure news!  Busybox now has its own 
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| 	     <a href="lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, 
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| 	     publically browsable
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| 	     <a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,  
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| 	     anonymous
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| 	     <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
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| 	     for those that are actively contributing there is even 
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| 	     <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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| 	     I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     Also, for the curious, there is no 0.44 release.  Somehow 0.44 got announced
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| 	     a few weeks ago prior to its actually being released.  To avoid any confusion
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| 	     we are just skipping 0.44.
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| 	     <p>
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| 	     Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
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| 	     of BusyBox (esp. Pavel Roskin)!
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| 
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
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|     <br>
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|         Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
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| 	For example, with the following test app:
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| <pre>
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| 	#include <syslog.h>
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| 
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| 	int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
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| 	{
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| 	    openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
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| 	    while(1) {
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| 	        syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
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| 	        sleep(delay);
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| 	    }
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| 	    closelog();
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| 	    return(0);
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| 	};
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| 
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| 	int main(void)
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| 	{
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| 	    if (fork()==0)
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| 	        do_log("A", 2);
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| 	    do_log("B", 3);
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| 	}
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| </pre>
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| 	it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B".  As released in 0.43 only stuff
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| 	from "A" would have been logged.  This means that if init tries to log something
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| 	while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
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| 	<p>
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| 	Karl M. Hegbloom has created a fix for the problem. 
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| 	Thanks Karl!
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| 
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
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|     <br>
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|         I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
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| 	good about things.  This is definitely the most stable, solid release
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| 	so far.  A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
 | |
| 	have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, 
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| 	freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep.  Tar has been completely
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| 	rewritten from scratch.  Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
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| 	More details are available in the 
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| 	<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>.
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| 	Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
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| 	<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
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| 
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| 	<p>
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| 	Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
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| 	and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were 
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| 	Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
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| 	Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
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| 	There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
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| 	<p>
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| 
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| 	You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="downloads">here</a>.
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
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|     <br>
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|         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
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|         enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
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|         changes I still want to make.
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|         <p>
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| 	The pre-release can be found <a href="downloads">here</a>.
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| 	Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
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|     
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|     <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
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|     <br>
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| 	I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
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| 	lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
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| 	He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
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| 	it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all.  Despite the
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| 	fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
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| 	and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
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| 	(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
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| 	down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
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| 	(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
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| 	contrary).
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| 	<p>
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| 	Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
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| 	labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
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| 	<p>
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| 	So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
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| 	Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady.  I expect
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| 	to have a release sometime during the first week of April.  This release will
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| 	include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a 
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| 	re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
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| 	accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking 
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| 	problems.
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| 
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This is the most solid BusyBox release so far.  Many, many
 | |
| 		bugs have been fixed.   See the 
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| 		<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
 | |
| 
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| 		Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount 
 | |
| 		filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and 
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| 		behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak 
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| 		loop devices.  Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, 
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| 		Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for 
 | |
| 		their hard work on this release of BusyBox.  Please pound 
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| 		on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
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| 		mkdir, syslogd, and init.  New apps include wc, hostid, 
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| 		logname, tty, whoami, and yes.  New features include loop device
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| 		support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
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| 		The changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 
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| 	     This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
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| 	     syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
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| 	     New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
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| 	     In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which 
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| 	     in some cases produced serious security problems.
 | |
| 	     As always, the changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
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| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
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|     <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.
 | |
| 
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|     <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 	     This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains 
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| 	     the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head.  A full
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| 	     changelog can be found <a href="downloads/Changelog">here</a>.
 | |
|     <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
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|     <br>
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| 	     This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, 
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| 		and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. 
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|     <li> <a href="/">Take me back to http://busybox.net/</a>.
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|     <p>
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| 
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|     <li>  <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
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|     Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
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|     The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written 
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|     by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>.  This is his BusyBox website.
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|     <p>
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| 
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|     <li>  <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/appindex/1999/04/11/923859921.html">
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|     Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
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