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<B>B u s y B o x</B>
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<a href="/"><IMG SRC="images/busybox2.jpg" alt="BusyBox" border="0" width="360" height="230"></a><BR>
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<A NAME="intro"> <BIG><B>
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The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux
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BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
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small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities
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you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip,
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tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or
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embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than
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their full featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide
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the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
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<p>
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BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind.
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It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or
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features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded
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systems. To create a working system, just add /dev, a kernel, and an editor,
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such as nano, e3, or elvis-tiny. For a really minimal system, you can even use
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the busybox shell (not Bourne compatible, but very small and quite usable).
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<p>
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BusyBox is now maintained by
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<a href="http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">
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Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by
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<a href="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</a>.
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BusyBox is licensed under the
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<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>
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<h3> Screenshot </h3>
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<p> Because everybody loves screenshots, a <a href="screenshot.html">
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screenshot</a> of BusyBox is now available <a href="screenshot.html"> right
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here</a>
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<H3>Mailing List Information</h3>
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BusyBox now has a <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>!
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To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
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Latest News
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2001-01-31 07:43:05 +05:30
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<li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b>
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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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
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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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<em>Special Note</em><br>
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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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<li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b>
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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="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
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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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<li> <b>Old News</b>
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For the old news, visit <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>.
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2000-06-22 06:57:11 +05:30
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Download
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<ul>
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<li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
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<a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
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<li> A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU
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gzipped tarball <a href="busybox.tar.gz"> right here</a>.
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<li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable
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<a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
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anonymous
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<a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/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="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
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Documentation
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Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
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<li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>.
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This is a list of the all the available commands in BusyBox with
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complete usage information and examples of how to use each app. I
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have spent a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to
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make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
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grammatical, whatever) please let me know.
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<li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/BusyBox.pdf">BusyBox.pdf</a>.
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This is basically the same document, but in pdf format.
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<li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/README">README</a>.
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This is the README file included in the busybox source release.
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<li> <a href="http://bugs.lineo.com/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBoxBugs</a>.
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Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed?
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<li> If you need more help, the BusyBox
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<a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is
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a good place to start.
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Important Links
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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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<li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">
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Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
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<li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
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<li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>.
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<li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
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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 --
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listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page:
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<li> <a href="http://www.lineo.com/products/embedix_linux/">Lineo Embedix Linux</a>
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<li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux Router Project </a>
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<li> <a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix Installer</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux 2.0 SBC</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a>
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<li> <a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS project</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a>
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<li> <a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your Linux Disk</a>
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<li> <a href="http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a>
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<li> <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a>
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<li> <a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery</a>
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<li> <a href="http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on nanoEngine</a>
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<li> <a href="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/"> Floppyfw</a>
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<li> <a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/"> Midori Linux</a>
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<p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to
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you.
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