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authorEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000
committerEric Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>2000-06-21 22:43:07 +0000
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@@ -57,7 +57,11 @@ Erik Andersen</a>, and its ongoing development is being sponsored by
<p>
BusyBox is licensed under the
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a>
+<p>
+<H3>NEW!</h3>
+BusyBox now has a mailing list <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>!
+To subscribe, go and visit <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>.
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@@ -70,6 +74,12 @@ BusyBox is licensed under the
<ul>
<li> Source for the latest release can always be downloaded from
<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox">ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox</a>.
+ <li> BusyBox now has its own publically browsable
+ <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
+ anonymous
+ <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
+ for those that are actively contributing there is even
+ <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
</ul>
@@ -86,155 +96,35 @@ BusyBox is licensed under the
<ul>
- <p> <li> <b>19 April 2000 -- syslogd bugfix</b>
- <br>
- Turns out that there was still a bug in busybox syslogd.
- For example, with the following test app:
-<pre>
- #include &lt;syslog.h&gt;
-
- int do_log(char* msg, int delay)
- {
- openlog("testlog", LOG_PID, LOG_DAEMON);
- while(1) {
- syslog(LOG_ERR, "%s: testing one, two, three\n", msg);
- sleep(delay);
- }
- closelog();
- return(0);
- };
-
- int main(void)
- {
- if (fork()==0)
- do_log("A", 2);
- do_log("B", 3);
- }
-</pre>
- it should be logging stuff from both "A" and "B". As released in 0.43 only stuff
- from "A" would have been logged. This means that if init tries to log something
- while say ppp has the syslog open, init would block (which is bad, bad, bad).
- <p>
- Karl M. Hegbloom has created a
- <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/busybox-0.43-syslog_patch">fix for the problem</a>.
- Thanks Karl!
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>18 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 released (finally!)</b>
- <br>
- I have finally gotten everything into a state where I feel pretty
- good about things. This is definitely the most stable, solid release
- so far. A lot of bugs have been fixed, and the following new apps
- have been added: sh, basename, dirname, killall, uptime,
- freeramdisk, tr, echo, test, and usleep. Tar has been completely
- rewritten from scratch. Bss size has also been greatly reduced.
- More details are available in the
- <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a>.
- Oh, and as a special bonus, I wrote some fairly comprehensive
- <em>documentation</em>, complete with examples and full usage information.
-
- <p>
- Many thanks go out to the fine people that have helped by submitting patches
- and bug reports; particularly instrumental in helping for this release were
- Karl Hegbloom, Pavel Roskin, Friedrich Vedder, Emanuele Caratti,
- Bob Tinsley, Nicolas Pitre, Avery Pennarun, Arne Bernin, John Beppu, and Jim Gleason.
- There were others so if I somehow forgot to mention you, I'm very sorry.
- <p>
-
- You can grab BusyBox 0.43 tarballs <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
-
- <p> <li> <b>9 April 2000 -- BusyBox 0.43 pre release</b>
- <br>
- Unfortunately, I have not yet finished all the things I want to
- do for BusyBox 0.43, so I am posting this pre-release for people
- to poke at. This contains my complete rewrite of tar, which now weighs in at
- 5k (7k with all options turned on) and works for reading and writing
- tarballs (which it does correctly for everything I have been able to throw
- at it). Tar also (optionally) supports the "--exclude" option (mainly because
- the Linux Router Project folks asked for it). This also has a pre-release
- of the micro shell I have been writing. This pre-release should be stable
- enough for production use -- it just isn't a release since I have some structural
- changes I still want to make.
- <p>
- The pre-release can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/">here</a>.
- Please let me know ASAP if you find <em>any</em> bugs.
-
- <p> <li> <b>28 March 2000 -- Andersen Baby Boy release</b>
- <br>
- I am pleased to announce that on Tuesday March 28th at 5:48pm, weighing in at 7
- lbs. 12 oz, Micah Erik Andersen was born at LDS Hospital here in Salt Lake City.
- He was born in the emergency room less then 5 minutes after we arrived -- and
- it was such a relief that we even made it to the hospital at all. Despite the
- fact that I was driving at an amazingly unlawful speed and honking at everybody
- and thinking decidedly unkind thoughts about the people in our way, my wife
- (inconsiderate of my feelings and complete lack of medical training) was lying
- down in the back seat saying things like "I think I need to start pushing now"
- (which she then proceeded to do despite my best encouraging statements to the
- contrary).
- <p>
- Anyway, I'm glad to note that despite the much-faster-than-we-were-expecting
- labor, both Shaunalei and our new baby boy are doing wonderfully.
- <p>
- So now that I am done with my excuse for the slow release cycle...
- Progress on the next release of BusyBox has been slow but steady. I expect
- to have a release sometime during the first week of April. This release will
- include a number of important changes, including the addition of a shell, a
- re-write of tar (to accommodate the Linux Router Project), and syslogd can now
- accept multiple concurrent connections, fixing lots of unexpected blocking
- problems.
-
-
- <p> <li> <b>11 February 2000 -- BusyBox 0.42 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This is the most solid BusyBox release so far. Many, many
- bugs have been fixed. See the
-<a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for details.
-
- Of particular interest, init will now cleanly unmount
- filesystems on reboot, cp and mv have been rewritten and
- behave much better, and mount and umount no longer leak
- loop devices. Many thanks go out to Randolph Chung,
- Karl M. Hegbloom, Taketoshi Sano, and Pavel Roskin for
- their hard work on this release of BusyBox. Please pound
- on it and let me know if you find any bugs.
-
- <p> <li> <b>19 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.41 released</b>
- <br>
-
- This release includes bugfixes to cp, mv, logger, true, false,
- mkdir, syslogd, and init. New apps include wc, hostid,
- logname, tty, whoami, and yes. New features include loop device
- support in mount and umount, and better TERM handling by init.
- The changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
-
- <p> <li> <b>7 January 2000 -- BusyBox 0.40 released</b>
+ <p> <li> <b>21 June 2000 -- BusyBox 0.45 released</b>
<br>
- This release includes bugfixes to init (now includes inittab support),
- syslogd, head, logger, du, grep, cp, mv, sed, dmesg, ls, kill, gunzip, and mknod.
- New apps include sort, uniq, lsmod, rmmod, fbset, and loadacm.
- In particular, this release fixes an important bug in tar which
- in some cases produced serious security problems.
- As always, the changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
-
- <p> <li> <b>11 December 1999 -- BusyBox Website</b>
- <br>
- I have received permission from Bruce Perens (the original author of BusyBox)
- to set up this site as the new primary website for BusyBox. This website
- will always contain pointers to the latest and greatest, and will also
- contain the latest documentation on how to use BusyBox, what it can do,
- what arguments its apps support, etc.
-
- <p> <li> <b>10 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.39 released</b>
+ This release has been slow in coming, but is very solid at this
+ point. BusyBox now supports libc5 as well as GNU libc. This
+ release provides the following new apps: cut, tr, insmod, ar,
+ mktemp, ,setkeycodes md5sum, uuencode, uudecode, which , and
+ telnet. There are bug fixes for just about every app as well (see
+ the <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
+ details).
+ <p>
+ Also, some exciting infrastructure news! Busybox now has its own
+ <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>,
+ publically browsable
+ <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">CVS tree</a>,
+ anonymous
+ <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_anon.html">CVS access</a>, and
+ for those that are actively contributing there is even
+ <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.
+ I think this will be a huge help to the ongoing development of BusyBox.
+ <p>
+ Many thanks go out to the many people that have contributed to this release
+ of BusyBox!
+
+
+
+ <p> <li> <b>Old News</b>
<br>
- This release includes fixes to init, reboot, halt, kill, and ls, and contains
- the new apps ping, hostname, mkfifo, free, tail, du, tee, and head. A full
- changelog can be found <a href="ftp://ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox/Changelog">here</a>.
- <p> <li> <b>5 December 1999 -- BusyBox 0.38 released</b>
- <br>
- This release includes fixes to tar, cat, ls, dd, rm, umount, find, df,
- and make install, and includes new apps syslogd/klogd and logger.
+ For the old news, visit <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/oldnews.html">the old news page</a>.
</ul>
@@ -259,74 +149,6 @@ Current documentation for BusyBox includes:
</ul>
-<!-- Begin Links section -->
-
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center>
- <A NAME="related">
- <BIG><B>
- Related Software</A>
- </B></BIG>
- </A>
-</TD></TR>
-<TR><TD BGCOLOR="#eeeee0">
-
-<ul>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/shells/ash.html">ash</a>
- is a very small Bourne shell. If you need a shell for your embedded systems, this is it.
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/ae.html">ae</a>
- is a tiny full-screen text editor with both modal (vi-like) and modeless
- (emacs-like) modes, determined by an ae.rc config file. It makes a nice editor
- if people that don't know "vi" will need to work on your embedded system.
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/base/elvis-tiny.html">elvis-tiny</a>
- is based on a 1991 Minix version of the elvis "vi" clone. It behaves as one would
- expect a minimalist vi to behave, and is very small.
- <p>
-
- <li> <a href="http://www.asty.org/nano/">nano</a>
- A small GPLed pico clone that makes a nice editor for people that don't know "vi".
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/iproute.html">iproute</a>
- Much more flexible replacement for ifconfig, route, etc. It is quite small, and for
- most networking applications, it is all you need. It also provides support for extremely
- advanced networking and provides Quality of Service(QoS) support, but most people will
- just need to use the "ip" command and will not even need to install the rest.
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.debian.org/Packages/unstable/net/pump.html">Pump</a>
- This is the DHCP/BOOTP client written by RedHat. When compiled properly, it
- gives you dhcp client support for about 35k.
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://www.pcug.org.au/~dbell/">sash</a>
- The Stand Alone SHell. This is a small shell (not Bourne shell compatible)
- that is similar to busybox in that it provides a number of common utilities as built-ins.
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://sourceware.cygnus.com/newlib/">NewLib</a>
- This is a small C library intended for use on embedded systems. If you are finding
- GNU libc is a bit too big for your applications, try NewLib and it may help.
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://linuxassembly.org/asmutils.html">asmutils</a>
- asmutils is similar to BusyBox in that it provides a number of common application
- for embedded systems that are very tiny. In fact, they are a _lot_ smaller than the
- equivalent apps in busybox -- but the price you pay for the size is reduced portability
- (x86 only) and interfaces that are tied directly to a particular kernel (no libc involved).
- <p>
-
- <li><a href="http://tinylogin.lineo.com/">TinyLogin</a>
- is a nice embedded tool for handling authentication, changing passwords,
- and similar tasks, and which nicely complements BusyBox.
- <p>
-
-</ul>
-
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@@ -373,6 +195,12 @@ Do you use BusyBox? I'd love to know about it and I'd be happy to link to you.
Freshmeat AppIndex record for BusyBox</A>
<p>
+ <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/software.html">Other cool embedded software</a>.
+ <p>
+
+ <li> <a href="http://opensource.lineo.com/">opensource.lineo.com</a>.
+ <p>
+
<li> <A HREF="http://www.lineo.com/">Lineo</A> is sponsoring BusyBox development.
<p>