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<ul>
<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
appologize for the abrupt move off of busybox.line.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> My DSL line (where busybox.net is living) is currently
struggling a bit under the load. To address this, I'm making
arrangements to get busybox.net co-located directly at an ISP
belonging to a friend of mine.
<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 on. Once the system is
co-located, that should should completely eliminate the current
speed problems. Hopefully, too, we can get some mirror sites set
up soon, to help distribute to load a bit.
<p>
<!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
<center>
Click here to help support busybox.net!
<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://www.codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
</form>
</center>
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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 paying for
needed hardware upgrades (Mark's NetWinder currently has just 64Meg
of memory -- I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of ram and a larger
hard drive for the box today). As demonstrated when google
spidered the site the other day, the extra ram should really
help... So far, donations received have been sufficient to cover
almost all expenses. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to everyone
that has contributed! Right now, I have enough to keep
busybox.net running for the time being. I'll keep you posted if
that changes.
<br>
-Erik
<p>
<li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
<p>
I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now
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 I believe it should take care of most everyone's needs
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
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told to do complex things with backticks.
<p>
I've personally tested this release out
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.
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://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.
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As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>
And please read the news item for the 18th as well. Have Fun.<br> -Erik
Have Fun.<br> -Erik
<p>
<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
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<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox/Buy busybox.net">
<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
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I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
will start costing some money.
<p>
I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
mailing list and web page. So...
<p>
I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
would be wonderful!
<p>
<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
<br>
This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
here it is. Come and get it.
<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
<li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
<br>
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
cleans up a number of things.
<p>
Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
to give it a try by downloading and compiling
<a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
<p>
Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
to view the tutorial.
<p>
Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
version number of this release, let me point out that this release
is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
next release and I don't want that to break products that people
are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
I will release that as a new stable release series.
<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
<br>
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
and ash).
<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
<br>
The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
<p>
<li> <b>Old News</b>

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<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
<hr>
<li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
<!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
<center>
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<form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
<input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
<input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox/Buy busybox.net">
<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
<input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
<input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
</form>
</center>
<!-- End PayPal Logo -->
I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
will start costing some money.
<p>
I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
mailing list and web page. So...
<p>
I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
would be wonderful!
<p>
<li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
<br>
This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
here it is. Come and get it.
<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
<li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
<br>
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
cleans up a number of things.
<p>
Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
to give it a try by downloading and compiling
<a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
<p>
Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
to view the tutorial.
<p>
Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
version number of this release, let me point out that this release
is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
next release and I don't want that to break products that people
are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
I will release that as a new stable release series.
<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
<li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
<br>
I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
and ash).
<p>
The
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
<a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
<p>Have Fun!
<p>
<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
<br>
The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
<p>
<li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
<br>