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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>
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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>