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<td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td>
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<a href="/"><img src="images/busybox1.png" alt="BusyBox"
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border="0" width="164" height="116"></a><br>
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<table width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" border=
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<td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= "intro"><big>
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<b>The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</b>
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BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities
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into a single small executable. It provides minimalist
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replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU
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fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally
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have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins;
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however, the options that are included provide the expected
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functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
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BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any
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small or embedded system.
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<p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and
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limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular
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so you can easily include or exclude commands (or
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features) at compile time. This makes it easy to
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customize your embedded systems. To create a working
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system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel.</p>
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<p>BusyBox is maintained by <a href=
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"http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik
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Andersen</a>, and licensed under the <a href=
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"http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL
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PUBLIC LICENSE</a>.</p>
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<h3>Screenshot</h3>
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<p>Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of
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BusyBox is now available <a href=
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"screenshot.html">right here</a>.</p>
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<h3>Mailing List Information</h3>
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BusyBox has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>.<br>
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To subscribe, go and visit <a href="/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
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<br>
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Before asking questions on the mailing list
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you should probably first search the mailing list archives...
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<a href="http://www.google.com"><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif" border="0" alt="Google" height="32" width="75" align="middle"></a> <input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value=""> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="search the mailing list archives">...
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<td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
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"news"><big><b>Latest News</b></big></a></td>
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<p>
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<li><b>30 July 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre2 released</b><p>
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Here goes another pre release for the new BusyBox stable
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series. The last prerelease (pre1) was given quite a lot of
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testing (thanks everyone!) which has helped turn up a number of
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bugs, and these problems have now been fixed.
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<p>
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Highlights of -pre2 include updating the 'ash' shell to sync up
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with the Debian 'dash' shell, a new 'hdparm' applet was added,
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init again supports pivot_root, The 'reboot' 'halt' and
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'poweroff' applets can now be used without using busybox init.
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an ifconfig buffer overflow was fixed, losetup now allows
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read-write loop devices, uClinux daemon support was added, the
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'watchdog', 'fdisk', and 'kill' applets were rewritten, there were
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tons of doc updates, and there were many other bugs fixed.
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<p>
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If you have submitted a patch and it is not included in this
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release and Erik has not emailed you explaining why your patch
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was rejected, it is safe to say that he has lost your patch.
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That happens sometimes. Please re-submit your patch to the
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BusyBox mailing list.
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<p>
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The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
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people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
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fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature that
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is still still on the TODO list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0
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release is adding module support for the new 2.6.x kernels. If
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necessary, a -pre3 BusyBox release will happen on August 6th.
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Hopefully (i.e. unless some horrible catastrophic problem
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turns up) the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release will be ready by
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then...
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<p>
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As usual you can <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
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You don't really need to bother with the
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<a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>, as the changes
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vs the stable version are way too extensive to easily enumerate.
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But you can take a look if you really want too.
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<p>Have Fun!
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<p>
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<p>
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<li><b>Old News</b><br>
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For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the
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old news page</a>.</li>
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<td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
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"sponsors"><big><b>Sponsors</b></big></a></td>
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Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
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support! They have provided money for equipment and
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bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
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consider these fine companies!
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<ul>
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<li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br>
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Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms
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</li>
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<li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
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Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
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</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>
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Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
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development.
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</li>
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</ul>
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Several individuals have also contributed. If you have
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already contributed and would like your name added
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here, just let me know. If you would like to be a
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BusyBox sponsor, email <a href=
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"mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
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"download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td>
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Source for the latest release can always be
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downloaded from <a href="downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
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<p>
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BusyBox now has <b>two</b> CVS trees. The "busybox-stable" tree
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contains the older 0.60.x stable series. The "busybox" tree contains
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the latest 1.0.0-preX development version of busybox.<br>
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<ul>
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<li><a href= "downloads/snapshots/">Daily Snapshots of the the latest
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stable, and the latest development CVS source trees can be found right here</a>.
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</li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">Click here to browse the CVS
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tree for the 1.0.0-preX development version of BusyBox</a>
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</li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox.stable/">Click here to browse
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the CVS tree for the stable 0.60.x version of BusyBox</a>.
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</li><li>Anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS
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access</a> is available.
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</li><li>For those that are actively contributing there is
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even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.</li>
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</ul>
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<td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
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"docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td>
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Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
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<ul>
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<li><a href=
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"downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. This is a
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list of the all the available commands in BusyBox
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with complete usage information and examples of how
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to use each app. I have spent a <em>lot</em> of time
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updating these docs and trying to make them fairly
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comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
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grammatical, whatever) please let me know.</li>
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<li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is
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the README file included in the busybox source
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release.</li>
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<li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
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"lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
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start.</li>
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</ul>
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<td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
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"links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td>
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<li><a href="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Free
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Software from Bruce Perens</a><br>
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The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up
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to 0.26 were written by <a href=
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"mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is
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his BusyBox website.</li>
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<li><a href=
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"http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat
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AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li>
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<li><a href=
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"http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a
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nice embedded tool for handling authentication,
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changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely
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complements BusyBox.</li>
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<li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is
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a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for
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embedded systems.</li>
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<li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> is a
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C library for embedded systems. You can actually
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statically link a "Hello World" application under x86
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that only takes 4k (as opposed to 200k under GNU
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libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely
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with BusyBox to create very small embedded Linux systems.
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</li>
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</ul>
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<td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
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"projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
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<p>I know of the following products and/or projects
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that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add
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them to the web page:</p>
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<li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> a configurable
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means for building your own busybox/uClibc based system systems.
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">
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Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2
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installer</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">
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Slackware Installer</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux install/boot CDs</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.mandrake.com/">The Mandrake installer</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux
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Router Project</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix
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Installer</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux
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2.0 SBC</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS
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project</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your
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Linux Disk</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran -
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VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make
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CD-ROM recovery</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on
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nanoEngine</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori
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Linux</a> - <a href=
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"http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html">
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Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href=
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"http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at
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the top of <a href=
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"http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html">
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this page</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal
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Server Project</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a>
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</li><li><a href=
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"http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
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Image</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
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Hat Linux</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://familiar.handhelds.org/">Familiar Linux</a> - a linux distribution for handheld computers
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</li><li><a href="http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/">Timo's Rescue CD Set</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://sf.net/projects/netstation/">Netstation</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.fiwix.org/">GNU/Fiwix Operating System</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.softcraft.com/">Generations Linux</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://systemimager.org/relatedprojects/">SystemImager / System Installation Suite</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.bablokb.de/gendist/">GENDIST distribution generator</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/">DIET-PC embedded Linux thin client distribution</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/">BYZantine Gnu/Linux</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">Darik's Boot and Nuke</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.timesys.com/">TimeSys real-time Linux</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://movix.sf.net/">MoviX</a> -- boots from CD and automatically plays every video file on the CD
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</li><li><a href="http://katamaran.sourceforge.net">katamaran</a>Linux, X11, xfce windowmanager, based on BusyBox
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</li><li><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/simplygnustep">Prometheus SimplyGNUstep</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.renyi.hu/~ekho/lowlife/">lowlife</a>A documentation project on how to make your own uClibc-based systems and floppy.
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</li><li><a href="http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/">Metadistros</a>a project to allow you easily make Live-CD distributions.
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</li><li><a href="http://salvare.sourceforge.net/">Salvare</a>More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk.
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</li><li><a href="http://www.stresslinux.org/">stresslinux</a>minimal linux distribution running from a bootable cdrom or via PXE.
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</li><li><a href="http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/">thinstation</a>convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thinclients.
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</li><li><a href="http://www.uhulinux.hu/">UHU-Linux Hungary</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.isilver-inc.com/">I-Silver Linux appliance servers</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus PDA</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.cyclades.com/">Cyclades-TS and other Cyclades products</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/wireless/wbr-g54.htm">Buffalo WBR-G54 wireless router</a>
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</li><li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a>
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