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 <ul>
 
-    <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
-    <p>
-
-    I am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now
-    released to the world.  This one is primarily a bugfix release for the
-    stable series, and I believe it should take care of most everyone's needs
-    till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to
-    release (with the wonderful new buildsystem).  The biggest change in this
-    release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been
-    re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
-    told to do complex things with backticks.
+    <li> <b>3 January 2002 -- Welcome to busybox.net!</b>
     <p>
     
-    I've personally tested this release out
-    on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, libc5, and uClibc, so
-    it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at.  
-    See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 
-    for <small>most of</small> the details.  The last release was
-    <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should be even better.
-    <p>
-    As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from 
-	     <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
-    <p>
-    And please read the news item for the 18th as well.  Have Fun.<br> -Erik
-    <p>
-
-    <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b>
+    Thanks to the generosity of a number of busybox users, we have been
+    able to purchase busybox.net (which is where you are probably
+    reading this).  Right now, busybox.net and uclibc.org are both
+    living on my home system (at the end of my DSL line).   I
+    appologize for the abrupt move off of busybox.line.com.
+    Unfortunately, I no longer have the access needed to keep that
+    system updated (for example, you might notice the daily snapshots
+    there stopped some time ago).
     
+    <p> My DSL line (where busybox.net is living) is currently
+    struggling a bit under the load.  To address this, I'm making
+    arrangements to get busybox.net co-located directly at an ISP
+    belonging to a friend of mine.  
+    <a href="http://www.codepoet.org/~markw">Mark Whitley</a> (author 
+    of busybox sed, cut, and grep) has donated his <a
+    href="http://www.netwinder.org/">NetWinder</a> computer 
+    for hosting busybox.net and uclibc.org on.   Once the system is 
+    co-located, that should should completely eliminate the current 
+    speed problems.  Hopefully, too, we can get some mirror sites set 
+    up soon, to help distribute to load a bit.
+
+    <p>
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     <center>
-    Click here to help buy busybox.net!
+    Click here to help support busybox.net!
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-	<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox/Buy busybox.net">
-	<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://busybox.net/images/busybox2.jpg">
+	<input type="hidden" name="item_name" value="Support Busybox">
+	<input type="hidden" name="image_url" value="https://www.codepoet-consulting.com/images/busybox2.jpg">
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-    I've contacted the current owner of busybox.net and he is willing
-    to sell the domain name -- for $250.  He also owns busybox.org but
-    will not part with it...  I will then need to pay the registry fee
-    for a couple of years and start paying for bandwidth, so this will
-    initially cost about $300.  I would like to host busybox.net on my
-    home machine (codepoet.org) so I have full control over the system,
-    but to do that would require that I increase the level of bandwidth 
-    I am paying for.  Did you know that so far this month, there
-    have been over 1.4 Gigabytes of busybox ftp downloads?  I don't
-    even <em>know</em> how much CVS bandwidth it requires.  For the
-    time being, Lineo has continued to graciously provide this
-    bandwidth, despite the fact that I no longer work for them.  If I 
-    start running this all on my home machine, paying for the needed bandwidth 
-    will start costing some money.
-    <p>
+    Since some people expressed concern over busybox donations.  Let me
+    assure you that no one is getting rich here.  All busybox and
+    uclibc donations will be spent paying for bandwidth, and paying for
+    needed hardware upgrades (Mark's NetWinder currently has just 64Meg
+    of memory -- I'm going to be ordering 256Megs of ram and a larger
+    hard drive for the box today).   As demonstrated when google
+    spidered the site the other day, the extra ram should really
+    help...  So far, donations received have been sufficient to cover
+    almost all expenses.  A <b>HUGE thank-you</b> goes out to everyone
+    that has contributed!   Right now, I have enough to keep
+    busybox.net running for the time being.  I'll keep you posted if
+    that changes.
+    <br>
+     -Erik
 
-    I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that
-    idea at all (big surprise).   It turns out &lt;insert argument
-    where she wins and I don't&gt; she has better ideas 
-    about what we should spend our money on that don't involve
-    busybox.  She suggested I should ask for contributions on the
-    mailing list and web page.  So...
     <p>
-
-    I am hoping that if everyone could contribute a bit, we could pick
-    up the busybox.net domain name and cover the bandwidth costs.  I
-    know that busybox is being used by a lot of companies as well as
-    individuals -- hopefully people and companies that are willing to 
-    contribute back a bit.  So if everyone could please help out, that 
-    would be wonderful!
+    <li> <b>20 November 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.2 released</b>
     <p>
 
-
-    <li> <b>23 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.1 released</b>
-    <br>
-
-	     This is a relatively minor bug fixing release that fixes
-	     up the bugs that have shown up in the stable release in
-	     the last few weeks.  Fortunately, nothing <em>too</em>
-	     serious has shown up.  This release only fixes bugs -- no
-	     new features, no new applets.  So without further ado,
-	     here it is.  Come and get it.
-	     <p>
-	     The 
-	     <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
-	     the details.  As usual BusyBox 0.60.1 can be downloaded from 
-	     <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
-	     <p>Have Fun!
-	     <p>
-
-
-    <li> <b>2 August 2001 -- BusyBox 0.60.0 released</b>
-    <br>
-	     I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
-	     BusyBox 0.60.0.  I have personally tested this release with libc5, glibc,
-	     and <a href="http://uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> on
-	     x86, ARM, and powerpc using linux 2.2 and 2.4, and I know a number
-	     of people using it on everything from ia64 to m68k with great success.
-	     Everything seems to be working very nicely now, so getting a nice
-	     stable bug-free(tm) release out seems to be in order.   This releases fixes
-	     a memory leak in syslogd, a number of bugs in the ash and msh shells, and
-	     cleans up a number of things.
-	     
-	     <p>
-
-	     Those wanting an easy way to test the 0.60.0 release with uClibc can 
-	     use <a href="http://user-mode-linux.sourceforge.net/">User-Mode Linux</a>
-	     to give it a try by downloading and compiling 
-	     <a href="ftp://busybox.net/buildroot.tar.gz">buildroot.tar.gz</a>.
-	     You don't have to be root or reboot your machine to run test this way.
-	     Preconfigured User-Mode Linux kernel source is also on busybox.net.
-	     <p>
-	     Another cool thing is the nifty <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/tutorial/index.html">
-	     BusyBox Tutorial</a> contributed by K Computing.  This requires 
-	     a ShockWave plugin (or standalone viewer), so you may want to grab the 
-	     the GPLed shockwave viewer from <a href="http://www.swift-tools.com/Flash/flash-0.4.10.tgz">here</a>
-	     to view the tutorial.
-	     <p>
-	     
-	     Finally, In case you didn't notice anything odd about the
-	     version number of this release, let me point out that this release
-	     is <em>not</em> 0.53, because I bumped the version number up a
-	     bit.  This reflects the fact that this release is intended to form
-	     a new stable BusyBox release series.  If you need to rely on a
-	     stable version of BusyBox, you should plan on using the stable
-	     0.60.x series.  If bugs show up then I will release 0.60.1, then
-	     0.60.2, etc...  This is also intended to deal with the fact that
-	     the BusyBox build system will be getting a major overhaul for the
-	     next release and I don't want that to break products that people
-	     are shipping.  To avoid that, the new build system will be
-	     released as part of a new BusyBox development series that will
-	     have some not-yet-decided-on odd version number.  Once things
-	     stabilize and the new build system is working for everyone, then
-	     I will release that as a new stable release series. 
-
-	     <p>
-	     The 
-	     <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all
-	     the details.  As usual BusyBox 0.60.0 can be downloaded from 
-	     <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
-	     <p>Have Fun!
-	     <p>
-
-
-    <li> <b>7 July 2001 -- BusyBox 0.52 released</b>
-    <br>
-
-	     I am very pleased to announce the immediate availability of
-	     BusyBox 0.52 (the "new-and-improved rock-solid release").  This
-	     release is the result of <em>many</em> hours of work and has tons
-	     of bugfixes, optimizations, and cleanups.  This release adds
-	     several new applets, including several new shells (such as hush, msh,
-	     and ash).
-
-	     <p>
-	     The 
-	     <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> covers 
-	     some of the more obvious details, but there are many many things that
-	     are not mentioned, but have been improved in subtle ways.  As usual,
-	     BusyBox 0.52 can be downloaded from 
+    We am very pleased to announce that the BusyBox 0.60.2 (stable) is now
+    released to the world.  This one is primarily a bugfix release for the
+    stable series, and it should take care of most everyone's needs
+    till we can get the nice new stuff we have been working on in CVS ready to
+    release (with the wonderful new buildsystem).  The biggest change in this
+    release (beyond bugfixes) is the fact that msh (the minix shell) has been
+    re-worked by Vladimir N. Oleynik (vodz) and so it no longer crashes when
+    told to do complex things with backticks.
+    <p>
+    
+    This release has been tested on x86, ARM, and powerpc using glibc 2.2.4, 
+    libc5, and uClibc, so it should work with just about any Linux system you throw it at.  
+    See the <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> 
+    for <small>most of</small> the details.  The last release was
+    <em>very</em> solid for people, and this one should be even better.
+    <p>
+    As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from 
 	     <a href="http://busybox.net/downloads">http://busybox.net/downloads</a>.
-	     <p>Have Fun!
-	     <p>
-
-
-	<li> <b>10 April 2001 - Graph of Busybox Growth </b>
-	<br> 
-	The illustrious Larry Doolittle has made a PostScript chart of the growth
-	of the Busybox tarball size over time. It is available for downloading /
-	viewing <a href= "busybox-growth.ps"> right here</a>.
-
-	<p> (Note that while the number of applets in Busybox has increased, you
-	can still configure Busybox to be as small as you want by selectively
-	turning off whichever applets you don't need.)
-	<p>
+    <p>
+    Have Fun.<br> -Erik
+    <p>