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78 78
79<ul> 79<ul>
80 80
81 <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b> 81 <li> <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
82 <p>
83
84 I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now
85 released to the world. This one is primarily a bugfix release for the
86 stable series, and I believe it should take care of most everyone's needs
87 till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to
88 release (with the wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in this
89 release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been
90 re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
91 told to do complex things with backticks.
92 <p> 82 <p>
93 83
94 I've personally tested this release out 84 Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox users, we have been
95 on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so 85 able to purchase busybox.net (which is where you are probably
96 it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at. 86 reading this). Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
97 See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 87 living on my home system (at the end of my DSL line). I
98 for <small>most of</small> the details. The last release was 88 appologize for the abrupt move off of busybox.line.com.
99 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should be even better. 89 Unfortunately, I no longer have the access needed to keep that
100 <p> 90 system updated (for example, you might notice the daily snapshots
101 As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from 91 there stopped some time ago).
102 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
103 <p>
104 And please read the news item for the 18th as well. Have Fun.<br> -Erik
105 <p>
106
107 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
108 92
93 <p> My DSL line (where busybox.net is living) is currently
94 struggling a bit under the load. To address this, I'm making
95 arrangements to get busybox.net co-located directly at an ISP
96 belonging to a friend of mine.
97 <a href="http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> (author
98 of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated his <a
99 href="http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer
100 for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org on. Once the system is
101 co-located, that should should completely eliminate the current
102 speed problems. Hopefully, too, we can get some mirror sites set
103 up soon, to help distribute to load a bit.
104
105 <p>
109 <!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> 106 <!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
110 <center> 107 <center>
111 Click here to help buy busybox.net! 108 Click here to help support busybox.net!
112 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> 109 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
113 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> 110 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
114 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org"> 111 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
115 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox/Buy busybox.net"> 112 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
116 <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg"> 113 <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://www.codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
117 <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> 114 <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
118 <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> 115 <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
119 </form> 116 </form>
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122 119
123 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing 120 Since some people expressed concern over busybox donations. Let me
124 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but 121 assure you that no one is getting rich here. All busybox and
125 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee 122 uclibc donations will be spent paying for bandwidth, and paying for
126 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will 123 needed hardware upgrades (Mark's NetWinder currently has just 64Meg
127 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my 124 of memory -- I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of ram and a larger
128 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system, 125 hard drive for the box today). As demonstrated when google
129 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth 126 spidered the site the other day, the extra ram should really
130 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there 127 help... So far, donations received have been sufficient to cover
131 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't 128 almost all expenses. A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to everyone
132 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the 129 that has contributed! Right now, I have enough to keep
133 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this 130 busybox.net running for the time being. I'll keep you posted if
134 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I 131 that changes.
135 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth 132 <br>
136 will start costing some money. 133 -Erik
137 <p>
138 134
139 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
140 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
141 where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
142 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
143 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
144 mailing list and web page. So...
145 <p> 135 <p>
146 136 <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
147 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
148 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
149 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
150 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
151 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
152 would be wonderful!
153 <p> 137 <p>
154 138
155 139 We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now
156 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b> 140 released to the world. This one is primarily a bugfix release for the
157 <br> 141 stable series, and it should take care of most everyone's needs
158 142 till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to
159 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes 143 release (with the wonderful new buildsystem). The biggest change in this
160 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in 144 release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been
161 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em> 145 re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
162 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no 146 told to do complex things with backticks.
163 new features, no new applets. So without further ado, 147 <p>
164 here it is. Come and get it. 148
165 <p> 149 This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4,
166 The 150 libc5, and uClibc, so it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at.
167 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all 151 See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a>
168 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from 152 for <small>most of</small> the details. The last release was
169 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. 153 <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should be even better.
170 <p>Have Fun! 154 <p>
171 <p> 155 As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from
172
173
174 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
175 <br>
176 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
177 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
178 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
179 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
180 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
181 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
182 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
183 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
184 cleans up a number of things.
185
186 <p>
187
188 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
189 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
190 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
191 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
192 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
193 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
194 <p>
195 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
196 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
197 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
198 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
199 to view the tutorial.
200 <p>
201
202 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
203 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
204 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
205 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
206 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
207 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
208 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
209 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
210 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
211 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
212 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
213 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
214 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
215 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
216 I will release that as a new stable release series.
217
218 <p>
219 The
220 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
221 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
222 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
223 <p>Have Fun!
224 <p>
225
226
227 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
228 <br>
229
230 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
231 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
232 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
233 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
234 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
235 and ash).
236
237 <p>
238 The
239 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
240 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
241 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
242 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
243 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>. 156 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
244 <p>Have Fun! 157 <p>
245 <p> 158 Have Fun.<br> -Erik
246 159 <p>
247
248 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
249 <br>
250 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
251 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
252 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
253
254 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
255 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
256 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
257 <p>
258 160
259 161
260 162
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40 40
41 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b> 41 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
42 <hr> 42 <hr>
43
44
45 <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
46
47 <!-- Begin PayPal Logo -->
48 <center>
49 Click here to help buy busybox.net!
50 <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post">
51 <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick">
52 <input type="hidden" name="business" value="andersen@codepoet.org">
53 <input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox/Buy busybox.net">
54 <input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
55 <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1">
56 <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal">
57 </form>
58 </center>
59 <!-- End PayPal Logo -->
60
61 I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
62 to sell the domain name -- for $250. He also owns busybox.org but
63 will not part with it... I will then need to pay the registry fee
64 for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
65 initially cost about $300. I would like to host busybox.net on my
66 home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
67 but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth
68 I am paying for. Did you know that so far this month, there
69 have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads? I don't
70 even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires. For the
71 time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
72 bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them. If I
73 start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth
74 will start costing some money.
75 <p>
76
77 I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
78 idea at all (big surprise). It turns out &lt;insert argument
79 where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas
80 about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
81 busybox. She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
82 mailing list and web page. So...
83 <p>
84
85 I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
86 up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs. I
87 know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
88 individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to
89 contribute back a bit. So if everyone could please help out, that
90 would be wonderful!
91 <p>
92
93
94 <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
95 <br>
96
97 This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
98 up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
99 the last few weeks. Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
100 serious has shown up. This release only fixes bugs -- no
101 new features, no new applets. So without further ado,
102 here it is. Come and get it.
103 <p>
104 The
105 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
106 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from
107 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
108 <p>Have Fun!
109 <p>
110
111
112 <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
113 <br>
114 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
115 BusyBox 0.60.0. I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
116 and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
117 x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
118 of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
119 Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
120 stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order. This releases fixes
121 a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
122 cleans up a number of things.
123
124 <p>
125
126 Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can
127 use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
128 to give it a try by downloading and compiling
129 <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
130 You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
131 Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
132 <p>
133 Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
134 BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing. This requires
135 a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the
136 the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
137 to view the tutorial.
138 <p>
139
140 Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
141 version number of this release, let me point out that this release
142 is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
143 bit. This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
144 a new stable BusyBox release series. If you need to rely on a
145 stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
146 0.60.x series. If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
147 0.60.2, etc... This is also intended to deal with the fact that
148 the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
149 next release and I don't want that to break products that people
150 are shipping. To avoid that, the new build system will be
151 released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
152 have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number. Once things
153 stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
154 I will release that as a new stable release series.
155
156 <p>
157 The
158 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
159 the details. As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from
160 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
161 <p>Have Fun!
162 <p>
163
164
165 <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
166 <br>
167
168 I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
169 BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release"). This
170 release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
171 of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups. This release adds
172 several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
173 and ash).
174
175 <p>
176 The
177 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers
178 some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
179 are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways. As usual,
180 BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from
181 <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
182 <p>Have Fun!
183 <p>
184
185
186 <li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
187 <br>
188 The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
189 of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
190 viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
191
192 <p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
193 can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
194 turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
195 <p>
196
43 197
44 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> 198 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
45 <br> 199 <br>