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41 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b> 41 <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
42 <hr> 42 <hr>
43 43
44 <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
45 <br>
46
47 BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
48 release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
49 contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
50 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
51 There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
52 the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
53 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
54 deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
55 <p>
56
57 There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
58 one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
59 added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
60 compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
61 functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
62 all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
63 maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
64 compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
65 for letting me use their system!).
66 <p>
67 You can read the
68 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
69 complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
70 <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
71 <p>Have Fun!
72 <p>
73
74 <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
75
76 <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
77 "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
78 image</a>. Here's how you use it:
79
80 <ol>
81
82 <li> <a href= "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img">
83 Download the image</a>
84
85 <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
86 of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
87
88 <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
89
90 </ol>
91
92 <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
93
94 <pre>
95 mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
96 cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
97 umount /mnt
98 gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
99 mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
100 </pre>
101
102
44 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b> 103 <li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
45 <br> 104 <br>
46 105