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Matt Kraai | 9ba0daf | 2001-01-31 01:59:46 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 23 | <a href="/"><IMG SRC="images/busybox2.jpg" alt="BusyBox" border="0" width="360" height="230"></a><BR> |
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| 26 | <!-- Begin Introduction section --> |
| 27 | |
| 28 | |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | <TABLE WIDTH="95%" CELLSPACING=1 CELLPADDING=4 BORDER=1> |
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| 31 | <A NAME="intro"> <BIG><B> |
| 32 | The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 33 | </B></BIG></A> |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | </TD></TR> |
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| 36 | |
| 37 | BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single |
| 38 | small executable. It provides minimalist replacements for most of the utilities |
| 39 | you usually find in fileutils, shellutils, findutils, textutils, grep, gzip, |
Eric Andersen | 8ec10a9 | 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 40 | tar, etc. BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any small or |
| 41 | embedded system. The utilities in BusyBox generally have fewer options than |
| 42 | their full featured GNU cousins; however, the options that are included provide |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 43 | the expected functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. |
| 44 | <p> |
| 45 | BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in mind. |
| 46 | It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude commands (or |
Eric Andersen | 8ec10a9 | 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize your embedded |
Eric Andersen | 0958093 | 2001-04-10 20:10:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 48 | systems. To create a working system, just add /dev, a kernel, and a shell. |
| 49 | For a really minimal system, you can even use the busybox shell (not Bourne compatible, but very small and quite usable), and the busybox vi editor. |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 50 | <p> |
| 51 | |
| 52 | BusyBox is now maintained by |
Eric Andersen | 537d165 | 2001-01-25 22:00:37 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 53 | <a href="http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html"> |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 54 | Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by |
| 55 | <a href="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</a>. |
| 56 | <p> |
| 57 | BusyBox is licensed under the |
Matt Kraai | cb378a5 | 2001-05-14 06:35:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 58 | <a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>. |
Eric Andersen | 766c012 | 2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 59 | <p> |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 60 | |
Mark Whitley | 7447642 | 2001-03-20 19:57:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 61 | |
Mark Whitley | ac21e93 | 2001-01-30 23:37:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 62 | <h3> Screenshot </h3> |
| 63 | |
Eric Andersen | c36c2ba | 2001-03-16 07:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 64 | <p> Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of BusyBox |
Matt Kraai | cb378a5 | 2001-05-14 06:35:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 65 | is now available <a href="screenshot.html">right here</a>. |
Mark Whitley | ac21e93 | 2001-01-30 23:37:15 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 66 | |
Mark Whitley | 7447642 | 2001-03-20 19:57:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 67 | |
Eric Andersen | 8ec10a9 | 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 68 | <H3>Mailing List Information</h3> |
Matt Kraai | 8677d7b | 2000-12-15 15:41:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 69 | BusyBox now has a <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>! |
Eric Andersen | 766c012 | 2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 70 | To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>. |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 71 | |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 72 | <!-- Begin Latest News section --> |
| 73 | |
| 74 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> |
| 75 | <A NAME="news"> |
| 76 | <BIG><B> |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 77 | Latest News |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 78 | </B></BIG> |
| 79 | </A> |
| 80 | </TD></TR> |
| 81 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> |
| 82 | |
| 83 | <ul> |
| 84 | |
Eric Andersen | 40ecf7d | 2001-07-07 08:25:03 +0000 | [diff] [blame^] | 85 | <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b> |
| 86 | <br> |
| 87 | |
| 88 | I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of |
| 89 | BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This |
| 90 | release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons |
| 91 | of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds |
| 92 | several new applets, including several new shells (such as hust, msh, |
| 93 | and ash). |
| 94 | |
| 95 | <p> |
| 96 | The |
| 97 | <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> covers |
| 98 | some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that |
| 99 | are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual, |
| 100 | BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from |
| 101 | <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. |
| 102 | <p>Have Fun! |
| 103 | <p> |
| 104 | |
| 105 | |
Mark Whitley | efcfe87 | 2001-04-10 21:58:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 106 | <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b> |
Eric Andersen | 93ffa95 | 2001-04-10 22:10:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 107 | <br> |
| 108 | The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth |
Mark Whitley | efcfe87 | 2001-04-10 21:58:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 109 | of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading / |
| 110 | viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>. |
| 111 | |
| 112 | <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you |
| 113 | can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively |
| 114 | turning off whichever applets you don't need.) |
Eric Andersen | 93ffa95 | 2001-04-10 22:10:42 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 115 | <p> |
Mark Whitley | efcfe87 | 2001-04-10 21:58:32 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 116 | |
Eric Andersen | 0958093 | 2001-04-10 20:10:55 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 117 | <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> |
| 118 | <br> |
| 119 | |
| 120 | BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This |
| 121 | release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet, |
| 122 | contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only |
| 123 | 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release. |
| 124 | There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in |
| 125 | the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in |
| 126 | 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially |
| 127 | deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system. |
| 128 | <p> |
| 129 | |
| 130 | There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For |
| 131 | one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov |
| 132 | added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC |
| 133 | compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility |
| 134 | functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now |
| 135 | all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes |
| 136 | maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now |
| 137 | compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters |
| 138 | for letting me use their system!). |
| 139 | <p> |
| 140 | You can read the |
| 141 | <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for |
| 142 | complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from |
| 143 | <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. |
| 144 | <p>Have Fun! |
| 145 | <p> |
| 146 | |
Eric Andersen | f77d886 | 2001-04-01 04:49:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 147 | <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b> |
| 148 | |
| 149 | <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href= |
| 150 | "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy |
| 151 | image</a>. Here's how you use it: |
| 152 | |
| 153 | <ol> |
| 154 | |
| 155 | <li> <a href= "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> |
| 156 | Download the image</a> |
| 157 | |
| 158 | <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img |
| 159 | of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt> |
| 160 | |
| 161 | <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up. |
| 162 | |
| 163 | </ol> |
| 164 | |
| 165 | <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this: |
| 166 | |
| 167 | <pre> |
| 168 | mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos |
| 169 | cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp |
| 170 | umount /mnt |
| 171 | gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz |
| 172 | mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix |
| 173 | </pre> |
| 174 | |
| 175 | |
Eric Andersen | c36c2ba | 2001-03-16 07:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 176 | <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> |
| 177 | <br> |
| 178 | |
| 179 | This release adds several new applets including ifconfig, route, pivot_root, stty, |
| 180 | and tftp, and also fixes tons of bugs. Tab completion in the |
| 181 | shell is now working very well, and the shell's environment variable |
| 182 | expansion was fixed. Tons of other things were fixed or made |
| 183 | smaller. For a fairly complete overview, see the |
| 184 | <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| 185 | <p> |
| 186 | lash (the busybox shell) is still with us, fixed up a bit so it |
| 187 | now behaves itself quite nicely. It really is quite usable as |
| 188 | long as you don't expect it to provide Bourne shell grammer. |
| 189 | Standard things like pipes, redirects, command line editing, and |
| 190 | environment variable expansion work great. But we have found that |
| 191 | this shell, while very usable, does not provide an extensible |
| 192 | framework for adding in full Bourne shell behavior. So the first order of |
| 193 | business as we begin working on the next BusyBox release will be to merge in the new shell |
| 194 | currently in progress at |
| 195 | <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry Doolittle's website</a>. |
Eric Andersen | dfba13d | 2001-03-16 08:30:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 196 | <p> |
Eric Andersen | c36c2ba | 2001-03-16 07:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 197 | |
| 198 | |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 199 | <li> <b>27 January 2001 -- BusyBox 0.49 released</b> |
Eric Andersen | 8ec10a9 | 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 200 | <br> |
| 201 | |
| 202 | Several new applets, lots of bug fixes, cleanups, and many smaller |
| 203 | things made nicer. Several cleanups and improvements to the shell. |
| 204 | For a list of the most interesting changes |
| 205 | you might want to look at the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| 206 | <p> |
| 207 | Special thanks go out to Matt Kraai and Larry Doolittle for all their |
| 208 | work on this release, and for keeping on top of things while I've been |
| 209 | out of town. |
| 210 | <p> |
| 211 | <em>Special Note</em><br> |
| 212 | |
| 213 | BusyBox 0.49 was supposed to have replaced lash, the BusyBox |
| 214 | shell, with a new shell that understands full Bourne shell/Posix shell grammer. |
| 215 | Well, that simply didn't happen in time for this release. A new |
| 216 | shell that will eventually replace lash is already under |
| 217 | construction. This new shell is being developed by Larry |
| 218 | Doolittle, and could use all of our help. Please see the work in |
| 219 | progress on <a href="http://doolittle.faludi.com/~larry/parser.html">Larry's website</a> |
| 220 | and help out if you can. This shell will be included in the next |
| 221 | release of BusyBox. |
Eric Andersen | dfba13d | 2001-03-16 08:30:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 222 | <p> |
Eric Andersen | 8ec10a9 | 2001-01-27 09:33:39 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 223 | |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 224 | <li> <b>13 December 2000 -- BusyBox 0.48 released</b> |
Eric Andersen | 4362200 | 2000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 225 | <br> |
| 226 | |
| 227 | This release fixes lots and lots of bugs. This has had some very |
| 228 | rigorous testing, and looks very, very clean. The usual tar |
| 229 | update of course: tar no longer breaks hardlinks, tar -xzf is |
| 230 | optionally supported, and the LRP folks will be pleased to know |
| 231 | that 'tar -X' and 'tar --exclude' are both now in. Applets are |
Matt Kraai | e3a94f7 | 2000-12-13 19:50:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 232 | now looked up using a binary search making lash (the busybox |
Eric Andersen | 4362200 | 2000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 233 | shell) much faster. For the new debian-installer (for Debian |
| 234 | woody) a .udeb can now be generated. |
| 235 | <p> |
Matt Kraai | e3a94f7 | 2000-12-13 19:50:48 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 236 | The curious can get a list of some of the more interesting changes by reading |
Eric Andersen | 4362200 | 2000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 237 | the <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>. |
| 238 | <p> |
| 239 | Many thanks go out to the many many people that have contributed to |
| 240 | this release, especially Matt Kraai, Larry Doolittle, and Kent Robotti. |
Eric Andersen | dfba13d | 2001-03-16 08:30:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 241 | <p> |
Eric Andersen | 4362200 | 2000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 242 | |
| 243 | |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 244 | <li> <b>Old News</b> |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 245 | <br> |
Eric Andersen | 766c012 | 2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 246 | For the old news, visit <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>. |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 247 | </ul> |
| 248 | |
| 249 | |
Eric Andersen | 4a971ae | 2000-06-22 01:27:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 250 | <!-- Begin Download section --> |
| 251 | |
| 252 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> |
| 253 | <A NAME="download"><BIG><B> |
| 254 | Download |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 255 | </B></BIG></A> |
Eric Andersen | 4a971ae | 2000-06-22 01:27:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 256 | </TD></TR> |
| 257 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> |
| 258 | <ul> |
Mark Whitley | 8ba1b11 | 2001-01-25 23:29:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 259 | |
| 260 | <li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from |
Eric Andersen | bdcc6fb | 2000-09-26 06:15:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 261 | <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>. |
Mark Whitley | 8ba1b11 | 2001-01-25 23:29:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 262 | |
| 263 | <li> A new snapshot of the source is made daily and is available as a GNU |
| 264 | gzipped tarball <a href="busybox.tar.gz"> right here</a>. |
| 265 | |
| 266 | <li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable |
Eric Andersen | 4a971ae | 2000-06-22 01:27:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 267 | <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>, |
| 268 | anonymous |
| 269 | <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and |
| 270 | for those that are actively contributing there is even |
| 271 | <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>. |
Mark Whitley | 8ba1b11 | 2001-01-25 23:29:58 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 272 | |
Eric Andersen | 4a971ae | 2000-06-22 01:27:11 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 273 | </ul> |
| 274 | |
| 275 | |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 276 | <!-- Begin Docs section --> |
| 277 | |
| 278 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> |
| 279 | <A NAME="docs"><BIG><B> |
| 280 | Documentation |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 281 | </B></BIG></A> |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 282 | </TD></TR> |
| 283 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> |
| 284 | Current documentation for BusyBox includes: |
| 285 | <ul> |
Eric Andersen | bdcc6fb | 2000-09-26 06:15:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 286 | <li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. |
| 287 | This is a list of the all the available commands in BusyBox with |
| 288 | complete usage information and examples of how to use each app. I |
| 289 | have spent a <em>lot</em> of time updating these docs and trying to |
| 290 | make them fairly comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual, |
| 291 | grammatical, whatever) please let me know. |
Eric Andersen | 4362200 | 2000-12-13 18:30:13 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 292 | <li> <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/README">README</a>. |
| 293 | This is the README file included in the busybox source release. |
Eric Andersen | c36c2ba | 2001-03-16 07:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 294 | <li> <a href="http://bugs.lineo.com/db/pa/lbusybox.html">BusyBox Bugs</a>. |
Eric Andersen | bdcc6fb | 2000-09-26 06:15:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 295 | Need to report a bug? Need to check if a bug has been filed? |
Eric Andersen | aec27bc | 2000-07-11 18:18:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 296 | <li> If you need more help, the BusyBox |
| 297 | <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is |
| 298 | a good place to start. |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 299 | </ul> |
| 300 | |
| 301 | |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 302 | <!-- Begin Links section --> |
| 303 | |
| 304 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> |
| 305 | <A NAME="links"> |
| 306 | <BIG><B> |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 307 | Important Links |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 308 | </B></BIG> |
| 309 | </A> |
| 310 | </TD></TR> |
| 311 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> |
| 312 | |
| 313 | <ul> |
| 314 | |
| 315 | <li> <A HREF="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/"> |
| 316 | Free Software from Bruce Perens</A><br> |
| 317 | The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up to 0.26 were written |
| 318 | by <A HREF="mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is his BusyBox website. |
| 319 | <p> |
| 320 | |
Eric Andersen | 5efa229 | 2001-03-05 18:26:50 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 321 | <li> <A HREF="http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/"> |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 322 | Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A> |
| 323 | <p> |
Eric Andersen | c36c2ba | 2001-03-16 07:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 324 | <li><a href="http://tinylogin.lineo.com/">TinyLogin</a> |
| 325 | is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords, |
| 326 | and similar tasks which nicely complements BusyBox. |
| 327 | <p> |
| 328 | |
Eric Andersen | dfba13d | 2001-03-16 08:30:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 329 | <li><a href="http://cvs.uclinux.org/uClibc.html">uClibc</a> |
Eric Andersen | c36c2ba | 2001-03-16 07:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 330 | is a C library for embedded systems. You can actually statically link |
| 331 | a "Hello World" application under x86 that only takes 4k (as opposed to |
| 332 | 200k under GNU libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely with |
Eric Andersen | dfba13d | 2001-03-16 08:30:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 333 | BusyBox to create very small embedded systems. |
Eric Andersen | c36c2ba | 2001-03-16 07:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 334 | <p> |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 335 | |
Eric Andersen | 766c012 | 2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 336 | <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>. |
| 337 | <p> |
| 338 | |
| 339 | <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>. |
| 340 | <p> |
| 341 | |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 342 | <li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development. |
| 343 | <p> |
| 344 | |
| 345 | </ul> |
| 346 | |
| 347 | |
Eric Andersen | 1b622ff | 2000-12-14 15:43:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 348 | <!-- Begin Projects section --> |
| 349 | |
| 350 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> |
| 351 | <A NAME="projects"><BIG><B> |
| 352 | Products/Projects Using BusyBox |
Matt Kraai | 18d5064 | 2001-01-31 02:13:05 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 353 | </B></BIG></A> |
Eric Andersen | 1b622ff | 2000-12-14 15:43:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 354 | </TD></TR> |
| 355 | <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0"> |
| 356 | |
| 357 | <p> I know of the following products and/or projects that use BusyBox -- |
| 358 | listed in the order I happen to add them to the web page: |
| 359 | |
| 360 | <ul> |
| 361 | <li> <a href="http://www.lineo.com/products/embedix_linux/">Lineo Embedix Linux</a> |
| 362 | <li> <a href="http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a> |
| 363 | <li> <a href="http://www.linuxrouter.org/">Linux Router Project </a> |
| 364 | <li> <a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a> |
| 365 | <li> <a href="http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a> |
| 366 | <li> <a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix Installer</a> |
| 367 | <li> <a href="http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux 2.0 SBC</a> |
| 368 | <li> <a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a> |
| 369 | <li> <a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS project</a> |
| 370 | <li> <a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a> |
| 371 | <li> <a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a> |
| 372 | <li> <a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your Linux Disk</a> |
| 373 | <li> <a href="http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a> |
| 374 | <li> <a href="http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a> |
| 375 | <li> <a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a> |
Eric Andersen | 1b622ff | 2000-12-14 15:43:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 376 | <li> <a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make CD-ROM recovery</a> |
Eric Andersen | c36c2ba | 2001-03-16 07:16:12 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 377 | <li> <a href="http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on nanoEngine</a> |
| 378 | <li> <a href="http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/"> Floppyfw</a> |
Mark Whitley | 7447642 | 2001-03-20 19:57:30 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 379 | |
| 380 | <li> <a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/"> Midori Linux</a> - <a href= |
| 381 | "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html"> Article on |
| 382 | Midori Linux</a> on <a href= "http://www.wired.com"> Wired</a>. Quote from |
| 383 | Erik at the top of <a href= |
| 384 | "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html"> this |
| 385 | page</a> |
Mark Whitley | 798ab30 | 2001-03-13 17:08:54 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 386 | |
Eric Andersen | 583e3ca | 2001-06-12 22:04:40 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 387 | <li> <a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal Server Project</a> |
| 388 | <li> <a href="http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a> |
Eric Andersen | 4f3e249 | 2001-06-06 18:21:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 389 | |
Eric Andersen | 1b622ff | 2000-12-14 15:43:57 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 390 | </ul> |
| 391 | |
| 392 | <p> Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to |
| 393 | you. |
| 394 | |
Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 395 | |
| 396 | |
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Erik Andersen | 330fd2b | 2000-05-19 05:35:19 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 401 | |
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| 410 | Mail all comments, insults, suggestions and bribes to |
| 411 | <a href="mailto:andersen@lineo.com">Erik Andersen</a><BR> |
Eric Andersen | dfba13d | 2001-03-16 08:30:00 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 412 | The Busybox logo is copyright 1999,2000,2001, Erik Andersen. |
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Eric Andersen | 19ec9ee | 2001-05-02 17:19:25 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 423 | <a href="http://www.gimp.org/"><img border=0 width=90 height=36 |
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