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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>
+    Click here to help buy 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/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>