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 apologize for the abrupt move off of - busybox.lineo.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).
- -Busybox.net is currently hosted on my home - server, at the end of a DSL line. Unfortunately, - the load on them is quite heavy. To address this, - I'm trying to make arrangements to get busybox.net - co-located directly at an ISP. To assist in the - co-location effort, Mark Whitley - (author of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated - his NetWinder computer - for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org. Once this - system is co-located, the current speed problems - should be completely eliminated. Hopefully, too, - some of you will volunteer to set up some mirror - sites, to help to distribute the load a bit.
- -
- 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 needed hardware
- upgrades. For example, Mark's NetWinder currently
- has just 64Meg of memory. As demonstrated when
- google spidered the site the other day, 64 Megs in
- not enough, so I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of
- ram and a larger hard drive for the box today. So
- far, donations received have been sufficient to
- cover almost all expenses. In the future, we may
- have co-location fees to worry about, but for now
- we are ok. A HUGE thank-you goes out to
- everyone that has contributed!
- -Erik
Busybox.net is now much more available, thanks to + the fine folks at http://i-netinnovations.com/ + who are providing hosting for busybox.net and + uclibc.org. In addition, we now have two mirrors: + http://busybox.linuxmagic.com/ + in Canada and + http://busybox.csservers.de/ + in Germany. I hope this makes things much more + accessible for everyone! -
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 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 re-worked by Vladimir N. - Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when - told to do complex things with backticks.
- -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 changelog for most - of the details. The last release was - very solid for people, and this one should - be even better.
- -As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from - http://www.busybox.net/downloads.
- -Have Fun.
- -Erik