1<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> 2 3<HTML> 4<HEAD> 5<TITLE>BusyBox</TITLE> 6</HEAD> 7 8<body text="#000000" alink="#660000" link="#660000" bgcolor="#dee2de" vlink="#660000"> 9 10<basefont face="lucida, helvetica, arial" size="3"> 11 12 13<CENTER> 14 <TABLE BORDER=0 CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=2> 15 <TR> 16 <td bgcolor="#000000"> 17 <FONT FACE="lucida, helvetica" COLOR="#ccccc0"> 18 <B>B u s y B o x</B> 19 </FONT> 20 </TD> 21 </TR> 22 </TABLE> 23 <a href="/"><IMG SRC="images/busybox2.jpg" alt="BusyBox" border="0" width="360" height="230"></a><BR> 24 25 26<!-- Begin Introduction section --> 27 28 29<TABLE WIDTH="95%" CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=4 BORDER=1> 30<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> 31 <A NAME="intro"> <BIG><B> 32 The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux 33 </B></BIG></A> 34</TD></TR> 35<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> 36 37BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single 38small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities 39you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip, 40tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or 41embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than 42their full featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide 43the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. 44<p> 45BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. 46It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or 47features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded 48systems. To create a working system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel. 49<p> 50 51BusyBox is now maintained by 52<a href="http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html"> 53Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by 54<a href="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</a>. 55<p> 56BusyBox is licensed under the 57<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>. 58<p> 59 60 61<h3> Screenshot </h3> 62 63<p> Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox 64is now available <a href="screenshot.html">right here</a>. 65 66 67<H3>Mailing List Information</h3> 68BusyBox now has a <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>! 69To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>. 70 71<!-- Begin Latest News section --> 72 73<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> 74 <A NAME="news"> 75 <BIG><B> 76 Latest News 77 </B></BIG> 78 </A> 79</TD></TR> 80<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> 81 82<ul> 83 84 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b> 85 <br> 86 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of 87 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc, 88 and <a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html">uClibc</a> on 89 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number 90 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success. 91 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice 92 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes 93 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and 94 cleans up a number of things. 95 96 <p> 97 98 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can 99 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a> 100 to give it a try by downloading and compiling 101 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>. 102 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way. 103 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on oss.lineo.com. 104 <p> 105 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/tutorial/index.html"> 106 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires 107 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the 108 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a> 109 to view the tutorial. 110 <p> 111 112 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the 113 version number of this release, let me point out that this release 114 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a 115 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form 116 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a 117 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable 118 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then 119 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that 120 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the 121 next release and I don't want that to break products that people 122 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be 123 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will 124 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things 125 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then 126 I will release that as a new stable release series. 127 128 <p> 129 The 130 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 131 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from 132 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. 133 <p>Have Fun! 134 <p> 135 136 137 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> 138 <br> 139 140 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of 141 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This 142 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons 143 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds 144 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh, 145 and ash). 146 147 <p> 148 The 149 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> covers 150 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that 151 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, 152 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from 153 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. 154 <p>Have Fun! 155 <p> 156 157 158 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> 159 <br> 160 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth 161 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / 162 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. 163 164 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you 165 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively 166 turning off whichever applets you don't need.) 167 <p> 168 169 170 171 <li> <b>Old News</b> 172 <br> 173 For the old news, visit <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>. 174</ul> 175 176 177<!-- Begin Download section --> 178 179<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> 180 <A NAME="download"><BIG><B> 181 Download 182 </B></BIG></A> 183</TD></TR> 184<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> 185<ul> 186 187 <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from 188 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. 189 190 <li> A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU 191 gzipped tarball <a href="busybox.tar.gz"> right here</a>. 192 193 <li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable 194 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, 195 anonymous 196 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and 197 for those that are actively contributing there is even 198 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. 199 200</ul> 201 202 203<!-- Begin Docs section --> 204 205<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> 206 <A NAME="docs"><BIG><B> 207 Documentation 208 </B></BIG></A> 209</TD></TR> 210<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> 211Current documentation for BusyBox includes: 212<ul> 213 <li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. 214 This is a list of the all the available commands in BusyBox with 215 complete usage information and examples of how to use each app. I 216 have spent a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to 217 make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual, 218 grammatical, whatever) please let me know. 219 <li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/README">README</a>. 220 This is the README file included in the busybox source release. 221 <li> <a href="http://bugs.lineo.com/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox Bugs</a>. 222 Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed? 223 <li> If you need more help, the BusyBox 224 <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is 225 a good place to start. 226</ul> 227 228 229<!-- Begin Links section --> 230 231<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> 232 <A NAME="links"> 233 <BIG><B> 234 Important Links 235 </B></BIG> 236 </A> 237</TD></TR> 238<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> 239 240<ul> 241 242 <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/"> 243 Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br> 244 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written 245 by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website. 246 <p> 247 248 <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/"> 249 Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> 250 <p> 251 <li><a href="http://tinylogin.lineo.com/">TinyLogin</a> 252 is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords, 253 and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox. 254 <p> 255 256 <li><a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html">uClibc</a> 257 is a C library for embedded systems. You can actually statically link 258 a "Hello World" application under x86 that only takes 4k (as opposed to 259 200k under GNU libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely with 260 BusyBox to create very small embedded systems. 261 <p> 262 263 <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>. 264 <p> 265 266 <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>. 267 <p> 268 269 <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development. 270 <p> 271 272</ul> 273 274 275<!-- Begin Projects section --> 276 277<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> 278 <A NAME="projects"><BIG><B> 279 Products/Projects Using BusyBox 280 </B></BIG></A> 281</TD></TR> 282<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> 283 284<p> I know of the following products and/or projects that use BusyBox -- 285listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page: 286 287<ul> 288 <li> <a href="http://www.lineo.com/products/embedix_linux/">Lineo Embedix Linux</a> 289 <li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a> 290 <li> <a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux Router Project </a> 291 <li> <a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a> 292 <li> <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a> 293 <li> <a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix Installer</a> 294 <li> <a href="http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux 2.0 SBC</a> 295 <li> <a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a> 296 <li> <a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS project</a> 297 <li> <a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a> 298 <li> <a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a> 299 <li> <a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your Linux Disk</a> 300 <li> <a href="http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a> 301 <li> <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a> 302 <li> <a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a> 303 <li> <a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery</a> 304 <li> <a href="http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on nanoEngine</a> 305 <li> <a href="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/"> Floppyfw</a> 306 307 <li> <a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/"> Midori Linux</a> - <a href= 308 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html"> Article on 309 Midori Linux</a> on <a href= "http://www.wired.com"> Wired</a>. Quote from 310 Erik at the top of <a href= 311 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html"> this 312 page</a> 313 314 <li> <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal Server Project</a> 315 <li> <a href="http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a> 316 317</ul> 318 319<p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to 320you. 321 322 323 324<!-- End of Table --> 325 326</TD></TR> 327</TABLE> 328 329 330 331<!-- Footer --> 332<HR> 333<TABLE WIDTH="100%"> 334 <TR> 335 <TD> 336 <font size="-1" face="arial, helvetica, sans-serif"> 337 Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to 338 <a href="mailto:andersen@lineo.com">Erik Andersen</a><BR> 339 The Busybox logo is copyright 1999,2000,2001, Erik Andersen. 340 </font> 341 </TD> 342 343 <TD> 344 <a href="http://www.vim.org"><img border=0 width=90 height=36 345 src="images/written.in.vi.png" 346 alt="This site created with the vi editor"></a> 347 </TD> 348 349 <TD> 350 <a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><img border=0 width=90 height=36 351 src="images/gfx_by_gimp.png" alt="Graphics by GIMP"></a> 352 </TD> 353 354 <TD> 355 <a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com"><img width=90 height=36 356 src="images/ltbutton2.png" alt="Linux Today"></a> 357 </TD> 358 359 <TD> 360 <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width=90 height=36 361 src="images/sdsmall.png" alt="Slashdot"></a> 362 </TD> 363 364 <TD> 365 <a href="http://freshmeat.net"><img width=90 height=36 366 src="images/fm.mini.png" alt="Freshmeat"></a> 367 </TD> 368 369 </TR> 370</TABLE> 371 372 373</CENTER> 374</BODY> 375</HTML> 376 377
