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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> |
120 | </center> | 117 | </center> |
121 | <!-- End PayPal Logo --> | 118 | <!-- End PayPal Logo --> |
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 <insert argument | ||
141 | where she wins and I don't> 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 <insert argument | ||
79 | where she wins and I don't> 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> |