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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> | ||
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> |