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-Erik
author: Eric Andersen 2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000
committer: Eric Andersen 2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000
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 <TITLE>BusyBox</TITLE>
 </HEAD>
 
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@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by
 <p>
 BusyBox is licensed under the 
 <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>
+<p>
 
+<H3>NEW!</h3>
+BusyBox now has a mailing list <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>!
+To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
 
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@@ -70,6 +74,12 @@ BusyBox is licensed under the
 <ul>
     <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from 
 	<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox">ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox</a>.
+    <li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable
+	<a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,  
+	anonymous
+	<a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
+	for those that are actively contributing there is even 
+	<a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -86,155 +96,35 @@ BusyBox is licensed under the
 
 <ul>
 
-    <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
-    <br>
-        Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
-	For example, with the following test app:
-<pre>
-	#include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
-
-	int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
-	{
-	    openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
-	    while(1) {
-	        syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
-	        sleep(delay);
-	    }
-	    closelog();
-	    return(0);
-	};
-
-	int main(void)
-	{
-	    if (fork()==0)
-	        do_log("A", 2);
-	    do_log("B", 3);
-	}
-</pre>
-	it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B".  As released in 0.43 only stuff
-	from "A" would have been logged.  This means that if init tries to log something
-	while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
-	<p>
-	Karl M. Hegbloom has created a 
-	<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
-	Thanks Karl!
-
-
-    <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
-    <br>
-        I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
-	good about things.  This is definitely the most stable, solid release
-	so far.  A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
-	have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime, 
-	freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep.  Tar has been completely
-	rewritten from scratch.  Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
-	More details are available in the 
-	<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
-	Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
-	<em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
-
-	<p>
-	Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
-	and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were 
-	Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
-	Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
-	There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
-	<p>
-
-	You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
-
-    <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
-    <br>
-        Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
-        do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
-        to poke at.  This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
-        5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
-        tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
-        at it).  Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
-        the Linux Router Project folks asked for it).  This also has a pre-release
-        of the micro shell I have been writing.  This pre-release should be stable
-        enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
-        changes I still want to make.
-        <p>
-	The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
-	Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
-    
-    <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
-    <br>
-	I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
-	lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
-	He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
-	it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all.  Despite the
-	fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
-	and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
-	(inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
-	down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
-	(which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
-	contrary).
-	<p>
-	Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
-	labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
-	<p>
-	So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
-	Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady.  I expect
-	to have a release sometime during the first week of April.  This release will
-	include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a 
-	re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
-	accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking 
-	problems.
-
-
-    <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
-    <br>
-
-	     This is the most solid BusyBox release so far.  Many, many
-		bugs have been fixed.   See the 
-<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
-
-		Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount 
-		filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and 
-		behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak 
-		loop devices.  Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung, 
-		Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for 
-		their hard work on this release of BusyBox.  Please pound 
-		on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
-
-    <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
-    <br>
-
-	     This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
-		mkdir, syslogd, and init.  New apps include wc, hostid, 
-		logname, tty, whoami, and yes.  New features include loop device
-		support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
-		The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
-
-    <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
+    <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
     <br>
 
-	     This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
-	     syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
-	     New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
-	     In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which 
-	     in some cases produced serious security problems.
-	     As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
-
-    <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
-    <br>
-	     I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
-		to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox.  This website
-		will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also 
-		contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
-		what arguments its apps support, etc.
-
-    <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
+	     This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
+	     point.  BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc.  This
+	     release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
+	     mktemp, ,setkeycodes md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which , and
+	     telnet.  There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
+	     the <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
+	     details).
+	     <p>
+	     Also, some exciting infrastructure news!  Busybox now has its own 
+	     <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>, 
+	    publically browsable
+	    <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,  
+	    anonymous
+	    <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
+	    for those that are actively contributing there is even 
+	    <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
+	    I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
+	    <p>
+	    Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
+	    of BusyBox!
+
+
+
+    <p> <li> <b>Old News</b>
     <br>
-	     This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains 
-	     the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head.  A full
-	     changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
-    <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
-    <br>
-	     This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df, 
-		and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger. 
+	     For the old news, visit <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>.
 </ul>
 
 
@@ -259,74 +149,6 @@ Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
 </ul>
 
 
-<!-- Begin Links section -->
-
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
-    <A NAME="related">
-    <BIG><B>
-    Related Software</A> 
-    </B></BIG>
-    </A>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-
-<ul> 
-
-    <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/shells/ash.html">ash</a>
-    is a very small Bourne shell. If you need a shell for your embedded systems, this is it.    
-    <p>
-                
-    <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/ae.html">ae</a>
-    is a tiny full-screen text editor with both modal (vi-like) and modeless 
-    (emacs-like) modes, determined by an ae.rc config file. It makes a nice editor 
-    if people that don't know "vi" will need to work on your embedded system.            
-    <p>
-
-    <li> <a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/elvis-tiny.html">elvis-tiny</a>
-    is based on a 1991 Minix version of the elvis "vi" clone. It behaves as one would 
-    expect a minimalist vi to behave, and is very small.
-    <p>
-
-    <li> <a href="http://www.asty.org/nano/">nano</a>
-    A small GPLed pico clone that makes a nice editor for people that don't know "vi".
-    <p>
-
-    <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/iproute.html">iproute</a>
-    Much more flexible replacement for ifconfig, route, etc. It is quite small, and for 
-    most networking applications, it is all you need. It also provides support for extremely 
-    advanced networking and provides Quality of Service(QoS) support, but most people will 
-    just need to use the "ip" command and will not even need to install the rest.
-    <p>
-
-    <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/pump.html">Pump</a>
-    This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. When compiled properly, it 
-    gives you dhcp client support for about 35k.                
-    <p>
-
-    <li><a href="http://www.pcug.org.au/~dbell/">sash</a>
-    The Stand Alone SHell.  This is a small shell (not Bourne shell compatible) 
-    that is similar to busybox in that it provides a number of common utilities as built-ins.
-    <p>
-    
-    <li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/newlib/">NewLib</a>
-    This is a small C library intended for use on embedded systems.  If you are finding
-    GNU libc is a bit too big for your applications, try NewLib and it may help.
-    <p>
-                
-    <li><a href="http://linuxassembly.org/asmutils.html">asmutils</a>
-    asmutils is similar to BusyBox in that it provides a number of common application
-    for embedded systems that are very tiny.  In fact, they are a _lot_ smaller than the
-    equivalent apps in busybox -- but the price you pay for the size is reduced portability 
-    (x86 only) and interfaces that are tied directly to a particular kernel (no libc involved).
-    <p>
-                
-    <li><a href="http://tinylogin.lineo.com/">TinyLogin</a>
-    is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords,
-    and similar tasks, and which nicely complements BusyBox.
-    <p>
-                
-</ul>
-
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@@ -373,6 +195,12 @@ Do you use BusyBox?  I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to you.
     Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
     <p>
 
+    <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
+    <p>
+
+    <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>.
+    <p>
+
     <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
     <p>
author	Eric Andersen	2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000
committer	Eric Andersen	2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000
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