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23 <body> 6<h3>BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</h3>
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27 <table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2">
28 <tr>
29 <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td>
30 </tr>
31 </table>
32 <a href="/"><img src="images/busybox1.png" alt="BusyBox"
33 border="0" width="164" height="116"></a><br>
34 <!-- Begin Introduction section -->
35
36 8
37 <table width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" border= 9BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single
38 "1"> 10small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you
39 <tr> 11usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox
40 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= "intro"><big> 12generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however,
41 <b>The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</b> 13the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave
42 </big></a></td> 14very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete
43 </tr> 15environment for any small or embedded system.
44 16
45 <tr> 17<p>
46 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
47 BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities
48 into a single small executable. It provides minimalist
49 replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU
50 fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally
51 have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins;
52 however, the options that are included provide the expected
53 functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts.
54 BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any
55 small or embedded system.
56 18
57 <p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and 19BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in
58 limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular 20mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude
59 so you can easily include or exclude commands (or 21commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize
60 features) at compile time. This makes it easy to 22your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device
61 customize your embedded systems. To create a working 23nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel.
62 system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel.</p>
63 24
64 <p>BusyBox is maintained by <a href= 25<p>
65 "http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik
66 Andersen</a>, and licensed under the <a href=
67 "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL
68 PUBLIC LICENSE</a>.</p>
69 26
70 <h3>Screenshot</h3> 27BusyBox is maintained by <a href=
28"http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik Andersen</a>, and
29licensed under the
30<a href= "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>
71 31
72 <p>Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of 32<p>
73 BusyBox is now available <a href= 33<p>
74 "screenshot.html">right here</a>.</p>
75 34
76 <h3>Mailing List Information</h3> 35<h3>Sponsors</h3>
77 BusyBox has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>.<br>
78 To subscribe, go and visit <a href="/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
79 <br>
80 Before asking questions on the mailing list
81 you should probably first search the mailing list archives...
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87 36
37Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
38support! They have provided money for equipment and
39bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
40consider these fine companies!
88 41
89 42
90 <!-- Begin Latest News section --> 43<ul>
91 </td> 44 <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br>
92 </tr> 45 Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms
46 </li>
93 47
94 <tr> 48 <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
95 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= 49 Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
96 "news"><big><b>Latest News</b></big></a></td> 50 </li>
97 </tr>
98 51
99 <tr> 52 <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>
100 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0"> 53 Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
101 <ul> 54 development.
55 </li>
102 56
103 <p> 57</ul>
104 <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p>
105 58
106 Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable 59If you wish to be a sponsor, or if you have already contributed and would like
107 series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under 60your name added here, email <a href= "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
108 testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number
109 of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all
110 the testing, bug reports, and patches!
111 61
112 <p>
113
114 If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox
115 mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your
116 patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has
117 somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes.
118 Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox
119 mailing list!
120
121 <p>
122
123 The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of
124 people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be
125 fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature
126 (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO
127 list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the
128 modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have
129 patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be
130 integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports
131 a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit
132 more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x
133 module loading alone.
134
135 <p>
136
137 I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of
138 course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of
139 <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a>
140 out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for
141 stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am
142 not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0
143 -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September...
144 But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or
145 exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon
146 indeed.
147
148 <p>
149
150 The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
151 the details. And as usual you can
152 <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>.
153
154 <p>Have Fun!
155 <p>
156
157
158
159 <p>
160 <li><b>Old News</b><br>
161 For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the
162 old news page</a>.</li>
163 </ul>
164 </td>
165 </tr>
166
167
168 <!-- Begin Sponsors section -->
169 <tr>
170 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
171 "sponsors"><big><b>Sponsors</b></big></a></td>
172 </tr>
173
174 <tr>
175 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
176 Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their
177 support! They have provided money for equipment and
178 bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project,
179 consider these fine companies!
180
181
182 <ul>
183 <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br>
184 Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms
185 </li>
186
187 <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br>
188 Embedded open source consulting in Europe.
189 </li>
190
191 <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br>
192 Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc
193 development.
194 </li>
195
196 </ul>
197 Several individuals have also contributed. If you have
198 already contributed and would like your name added
199 here, just let me know. If you would like to be a
200 BusyBox sponsor, email <a href=
201 "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>.
202 </td>
203 </tr>
204
205 <!-- Begin Download section -->
206 <p>
207 <tr>
208 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
209 "download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td>
210 </tr>
211
212 <tr>
213 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
214 Source for the latest release can always be
215 downloaded from <a href="downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>.
216 <p>
217
218 BusyBox now has <b>two</b> CVS trees. The "busybox-stable" tree
219 contains the older 0.60.x stable series. The "busybox" tree contains
220 the latest 1.0.0-preX development version of busybox.<br>
221
222 <ul>
223 <li><a href= "downloads/snapshots/">Daily Snapshots of the the latest
224 stable, and the latest development CVS source trees can be found right here</a>.
225 <br>
226 </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">Click here to browse the CVS
227 tree for the 1.0.0-preX development version of BusyBox</a>
228 </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox.stable/">Click here to browse
229 the CVS tree for the stable 0.60.x version of BusyBox</a>.
230 </li><li>Anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS
231 access</a> is available.
232 </li><li>For those that are actively contributing there is
233 even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.</li>
234 </ul>
235 </td>
236 </tr>
237
238 <!-- Begin Docs section -->
239 <tr>
240 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
241 "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td>
242 </tr>
243
244 <tr>
245 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
246 Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
247
248 <ul>
249 <li><a href=
250 "downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. This is a
251 list of the all the available commands in BusyBox
252 with complete usage information and examples of how
253 to use each app. I have spent a <em>lot</em> of time
254 updating these docs and trying to make them fairly
255 comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual,
256 grammatical, whatever) please let me know.</li>
257
258 <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is
259 the README file included in the busybox source
260 release.</li>
261
262 <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href=
263 "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to
264 start.</li>
265 </ul>
266 </td>
267 </tr>
268
269 <!-- Begin Links section -->
270 <tr>
271 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
272 "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td>
273 </tr>
274
275 <tr>
276 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
277 <ul>
278 <li><a href="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Free
279 Software from Bruce Perens</a><br>
280 The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up
281 to 0.26 were written by <a href=
282 "mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is
283 his BusyBox website.</li>
284
285 <li><a href=
286 "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat
287 AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li>
288
289 <li><a href=
290 "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a
291 nice embedded tool for handling authentication,
292 changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely
293 complements BusyBox.</li>
294
295 <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is
296 a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for
297 embedded systems.</li>
298
299 <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> is a
300 C library for embedded systems. You can actually
301 statically link a "Hello World" application under x86
302 that only takes 4k (as opposed to 200k under GNU
303 libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely
304 with BusyBox to create very small embedded Linux systems.
305 </li>
306 </ul>
307 </td>
308 </tr>
309
310 <!-- Begin Projects section -->
311 <tr>
312 <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name=
313 "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using BusyBox</b></big></a></td>
314 </tr>
315
316 <tr>
317 <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0">
318 <p>I know of the following products and/or projects
319 that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add
320 them to the web page:</p>
321
322 <ul>
323
324
325 <li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> a configurable
326 means for building your own busybox/uClibc based system systems.
327
328 </li><li><a href=
329 "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/">
330 Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a>
331
332 </li><li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat installer</a>
333
334 </li><li><a href=
335 "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/">
336 Slackware Installer</a>
337
338 </li><li><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux install/boot CDs</a>
339 </li><li><a href="http://www.mandrake.com/">The Mandrake installer</a>
340
341 </li><li><a href="http://Leaf.SourceForge.net">Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall (the sucessor of the Linux Router Project) supporting all sorts of embedded Linux gateways, routers, wireless routers, and firewalls,</a>
342
343 </li><li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a>
344
345 </li><li><a href=
346 "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a>
347
348 </li><li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix
349 Installer</a>
350
351 </li><li><a href=
352 "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux
353 2.0 SBC</a>
354
355 </li><li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a>
356
357 </li><li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS
358 project</a>
359
360 </li><li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your
361 Linux Disk</a>
362
363 </li><li><a href=
364 "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a>
365
366 </li><li><a href=
367 "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a>
368
369 </li><li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran -
370 VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a>
371
372 </li><li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make
373 CD-ROM recovery</a>
374
375 </li><li><a href=
376 "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on
377 nanoEngine</a>
378
379 </li><li><a href=
380 "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a>
381
382 </li><li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori
383 Linux</a> - <a href=
384 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html">
385 Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href=
386 "http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at
387 the top of <a href=
388 "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html">
389 this page</a>
390
391 </li><li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal
392 Server Project</a>
393
394 </li><li><a href=
395 "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a>
396
397 </li><li><a href=
398 "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a>
399
400 </li><li><a href=
401 "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a>
402
403 </li><li><a href=
404 "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a>
405
406 </li><li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a>
407
408 </li><li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition
409 Image</a>
410
411 </li><li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a>
412
413 </li><li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil
414 Hat Linux</a>
415
416 </li><li><a href="http://familiar.handhelds.org/">Familiar Linux</a> - a linux distribution for handheld computers
417 </li><li><a href="http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/">Timo's Rescue CD Set</a>
418 </li><li><a href="http://sf.net/projects/netstation/">Netstation</a>
419 </li><li><a href="http://www.fiwix.org/">GNU/Fiwix Operating System</a>
420 </li><li><a href="http://www.softcraft.com/">Generations Linux</a>
421 </li><li><a href="http://systemimager.org/relatedprojects/">SystemImager / System Installation Suite</a>
422 </li><li><a href="http://www.bablokb.de/gendist/">GENDIST distribution generator</a>
423 </li><li><a href="http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/">DIET-PC embedded Linux thin client distribution</a>
424 </li><li><a href="http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/">BYZantine Gnu/Linux</a>
425 </li><li><a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">Darik's Boot and Nuke</a>
426 </li><li><a href="http://www.timesys.com/">TimeSys real-time Linux</a>
427 </li><li><a href="http://movix.sf.net/">MoviX</a> -- boots from CD and automatically plays every video file on the CD
428 </li><li><a href="http://katamaran.sourceforge.net">katamaran</a>Linux, X11, xfce windowmanager, based on BusyBox
429 </li><li><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/simplygnustep">Prometheus SimplyGNUstep</a>
430 </li><li><a href="http://www.renyi.hu/~ekho/lowlife/">lowlife</a>A documentation project on how to make your own uClibc-based systems and floppy.
431 </li><li><a href="http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/">Metadistros</a>a project to allow you easily make Live-CD distributions.
432 </li><li><a href="http://salvare.sourceforge.net/">Salvare</a>More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk.
433 </li><li><a href="http://www.stresslinux.org/">stresslinux</a>minimal linux distribution running from a bootable cdrom or via PXE.
434 </li><li><a href="http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/">thinstation</a>convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thinclients.
435 </li><li><a href="http://www.uhulinux.hu/">UHU-Linux Hungary</a>
436
437 </li><li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a>
438 </li><li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a>
439 </li><li><a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a>
440 </li><li><a href="http://www.isilver-inc.com/">I-Silver Linux appliance servers</a>
441 </li><li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus PDA</a>
442 </li><li><a href="http://www.cyclades.com/">Cyclades-TS and other Cyclades products</a>
443 </li><li><a href="http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/wireless/wbr-g54.htm">Buffalo WBR-G54 wireless router</a>
444 </li><li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a>
445 </li><li><a href="http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508">Linksys WRT54G - Wireless-G Broadband Router</a>
446 </li><li><a href="http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/topics/sbtopic_005_truemobile.htm">Dell TrueMobile 1184</a>
447 </li><li><a href="http://actiontec.com/products/modems/dual_pcmodem/dpm_overview.html">Actiontec Dual PC Modem</a>
448
449
450 </ul>
451
452 <p>Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and
453 I'd be happy to link to you. <!-- End of Table -->
454 </p>
455 </td>
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463 <td class="c2">Mail all comments, insults, suggestions
464 and bribes to <a href="mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik
465 Andersen</a><br>
466 The Busybox logo is copyright 1999-2002, Erik
467 Andersen.</td>
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