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          <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td>
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      <a href="/"><img src="images/busybox1.png" alt="BusyBox"
      border="0" width="164" height="116"></a><br>
       <!-- Begin Introduction section -->
       

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          <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= "intro"><big>
	  <b>The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</b>
	  </big></a></td>
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          <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
            BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX
            utilities into a single small executable. It provides
            minimalist replacements for most of the utilities you
            usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils,
            textutils, grep, gzip, tar, etc. BusyBox provides a
            fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or
            embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally
            have fewer options than their full featured GNU
            cousins; however, the options that are included provide
            the expected functionality and behave very much like
            their GNU counterparts. 

            <p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and
            limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular
            so you can easily include or exclude commands (or
            features) at compile time. This makes it easy to
            customize your embedded systems. To create a working
            system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel.</p>

            <p>BusyBox is maintained by <a href=
            "http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik
            Andersen</a>, and licensed under the <a href=
            "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL
            PUBLIC LICENSE</a>.</p>

            <h3>Screenshot</h3>

            <p>Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of
            BusyBox is now available <a href=
            "screenshot.html">right here</a>.</p>

            <h3>Mailing List Information</h3>
            BusyBox now has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing
            list</a>!<br>
            To subscribe, go and visit <a href=
            "/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>. 

            <h3>Sponsors</h3>
            Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
            support! They have provided money for equipment and
            bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
            consider these fine companies! 

            <ul>
              <li><a href=
              "http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
              Embedded open source consulting in Europe.</li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet
              Consulting</a><br>
              Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
              development.</li>
            </ul>
            Several individuals have also contributed. If you have
            already contributed and would like your name added
            here, just let me know. If you would like to be a
            BusyBox sponsor, email <a href=
            "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>. 
            <!-- Begin Latest News section -->
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          <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
          "news"><big><b>Latest News</b></big></a></td>
        </tr>

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          <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
            <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 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).</p>

                <p>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, <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. 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.</p>

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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 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 <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to
                everyone that has contributed!<br>
                 -Erik</p>
              </li>

              <li>
                <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> 

                <p>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.</p>

                <p>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=
                "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.</p>

                <p>As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
                <a href=
                "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</p>

                <p>Have Fun.<br>
                 -Erik</p>
              </li>

              <li><b>Old News</b><br>
               For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the
              old news page</a>.</li>
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          <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
          "download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td>
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          <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
            <ul>
              <li>Source for the latest release can always be
              downloaded from <a href=
              "downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.</li>

              <li>A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is
              available as a GNU gzipped tarball <a href=
              "busybox.tar.gz">right here</a>.</li>

              <li>BusyBox now has its own publically browsable <a
              href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
              anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
              for those that are actively contributing there is
              even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write
              access</a>.</li>
            </ul>
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          <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
          "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td>
        </tr>

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          <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
            Current documentation for BusyBox includes: 

            <ul>
              <li><a href=
              "downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. This is a
              list of the all the available commands in BusyBox
              with complete usage information and examples of how
              to use each app. I have spent a <em>lot</em> of time
              updating these docs and trying to make them fairly
              comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
              grammatical, whatever) please let me know.</li>

              <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is
              the README file included in the busybox source
              release.</li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://bugs.busybox.net/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox
              Bugs</a>. Need to report a bug? Need to check if a
              bug has been filed?</li>

              <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
              "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
              start.</li>
            </ul>
            <!-- Begin Links section -->
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        </tr>

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          <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
          "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
            <ul>
              <li><a href="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Free
              Software from Bruce Perens</a><br>
               The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up
              to 0.26 were written by <a href=
              "mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is
              his BusyBox website.</li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat
              AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a
              nice embedded tool for handling authentication,
              changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely
              complements BusyBox.</li>

              <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is
              a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for
              embedded systems.</li>

              <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> is a
              C library for embedded systems. You can actually
              statically link a "Hello World" application under x86
              that only takes 4k (as opposed to 200k under GNU
              libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely
              with BusyBox to create very small embedded
              systems.</li>
            </ul>
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          <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
          "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using
          BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
            <p>I know of the following products and/or projects
            that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add
            them to the web page:</p>

            <ul>
              <li><a href=
              "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian
              installer (boot floppies) project</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat 7.2
              installer</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">
              Slackware Installer</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux
              Router Project</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix
              Installer</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux
              2.0 SBC</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS
              project</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango
              Internet Radio</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN
              Firewall</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your
              Linux Disk</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran -
              VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make
              CD-ROM recovery</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on
              nanoEngine</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori
              Linux</a> - <a href=
              "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html">
              Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href=
              "http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at
              the top of <a href=
              "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html">
              this page</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal
              Server Project</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.cachier.com/">Cachier</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a></li>

              <li><a href=
              "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
              Image</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux
              Phone</a></li>

              <li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
              Hat Linux</a></li>
            </ul>

              <li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus
	      PDA</a></li>
            </ul>

            <p>Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and
            I'd be happy to link to you. <!-- End of Table -->
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          <td class="c2">Mail all comments, insults, suggestions
          and bribes to <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik
          Andersen</a><br>
           The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik
          Andersen.</td>

          <td><a href="http://www.vim.org"><img border="0" width=
          "90" height="36" src="images/written.in.vi.png" alt=
          "This site created with the vi editor"></a></td>

          <td><a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><img border="0" width=
          "90" height="36" src="images/gfx_by_gimp.png" alt=
          "Graphics by GIMP"></a></td>

          <td><a href="http://www.linuxtoday.com"><img width="90"
          height="36" src="images/ltbutton2.png" alt="Linux Today">
          </a></td>

          <td>
            <p><a href="http://slashdot.org"><img width="90"
            height="36" src="images/sdsmall.png" alt="Slashdot">
            </a></p>
          </td>

          <td><a href="http://freshmeat.net"><img width="90"
          height="36" src="images/fm.mini.png" alt="Freshmeat">
          </a></td>
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