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BUSYBOX
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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://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>!<br>
To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://www.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
<H3>Sponsors</h3>
Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their support! They have
provided money for equipment and bandwidth. Next time you need help
with a project, consider these fine companies!
<ul>
<li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
<li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc development.
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Several individuals have also contributed. If you have already contributed
and would like your name added here, just let me know. If you would like
to be a BusyBox sponsor, email <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
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<li> <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
<p>
Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox users, we have been
able to purchase busybox.net (which is where you are probably
reading this). Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
living on my home system (at the end of my DSL line). I
apologize for the abrupt move off of busybox.lineo.com.
Unfortunately, I no longer have the access needed to keep that
system updated (for example, you might notice the daily snapshots
there stopped some time ago).
<p>
Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home server, at the end of a
DSL line. Unfortunately, the load on them is quite heavy. To address
this, I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net co-located
directly at an ISP. To assist in the co-location effort, <a
href="http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> (author of
busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated his <a
href="http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer for hosting
busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this system is co-located, the
current speed problems should be completely eliminated. Hopefully,
too, some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror sites, to help
to distribute the load a bit.
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Since some people expressed concern over BusyBox donations, let me
assure you that no one is getting rich here. All BusyBox and
uClibc donations will be spent paying for bandwidth and needed
hardware upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently has
just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when google spidered the site
the other day, 64 Megs in not enough, so I'm going to be ordering
256Megs of ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So far,
donations received have been sufficient to cover almost all
expenses. In the future, we may have co-location fees to worry
about, but for now we are ok.
A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to everyone that has
contributed!
<br>
-Erik
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<li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
<p>
We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now
released to the world. This one is primarily a bugfix release for the
stable series, and it should take care of most everyone's needs
till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to
release (with the wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in this
release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been
re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
told to do complex things with backticks.
<p>
This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4,
libc5, and uClibc, so it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at.
See the <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
for <small>most of</small> the details. The last release was
<em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should be even better.
<p>
As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>
Have Fun.<br> -Erik
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<li> <b>Old News</b>
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For the old news, visit <a href="http://www.busybox.net/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>.
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<li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</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://www.busybox.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
anonymous
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
for those that are actively contributing there is even
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
<ul>
<li> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>.
This is a list of the all the available commands in BusyBox with
complete usage information and examples of how to use each app. I
have spent a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to
make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
grammatical, whatever) please let me know.
<li> <a href="http://www.busybox.net/downloads/README">README</a>.
This is the README file included in the busybox source release.
<li> <a href="http://bugs.busybox.net/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox Bugs</a>.
Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed?
<li> If you need more help, the BusyBox
<a href="http://www.busybox.net/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is
a good place to start.
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Important Links
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<li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">
Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br>
The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written
by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website.
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<li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">
Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
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<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://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a>
is a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for embedded systems.
<p>
<li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
is a C library for embedded systems. You can actually statically link
a "Hello World" application under x86 that only takes 4k (as opposed to
200k under GNU libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely with
BusyBox to create very small embedded systems.
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Products/Projects Using BusyBox
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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>
<li> <a href="http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a>
<li> <a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition Image</a>
<li> <a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</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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