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<p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.lineo.com/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b>
<hr>
+ <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b>
+ <br>
+
+ BusyBox 0.51 (the "rock-solid release") is now out there. This
+ release adds only 2 new applets: env and vi. The vi applet,
+ contributed by Sterling Huxley, is very functional, and is only
+ 22k. This release fixes 3 critical bugs in the 0.50 release.
+ There were 2 potential segfaults in lash (the busybox shell) in
+ the 0.50 release which are now fixed. Another critical bug in
+ 0.50 which is now fixed: syslogd from 0.50 could potentially
+ deadlock the init process and thereby break your entire system.
+ <p>
+
+ There are a number of improvements in this release as well. For
+ one thing, the wget applet is greatly improved. Dmitry Zakharov
+ added FTP support, and Laurence Anderson make wget fully RFC
+ compliant for HTTP 1.1. The mechanism for including utility
+ functions in previous releases was clumsy and error prone. Now
+ all utility functions are part of a new libbb library, which makes
+ maintaining utility functions much simpler. And BusyBox now
+ compiles on itanium systems (thanks to the Debian itanium porters
+ for letting me use their system!).
+ <p>
+ You can read the
+ <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox/Changelog">changelog</a> for
+ complete details. BusyBox 0.51 can be downloaded from
+ <a href="ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox">ftp://oss.lineo.com/busybox</a>.
+ <p>Have Fun!
+ <p>
+
+ <li> <b>Busybox Boot-Floppy Image</b>
+
+ <p>Because you asked for it, we have made available a <a href=
+ "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img"> Busybox boot floppy
+ image</a>. Here's how you use it:
+
+ <ol>
+
+ <li> <a href= "ftp://opensource.lineo.com/busybox/busybox.floppy.img">
+ Download the image</a>
+
+ <li> dd it onto a floppy like so: <tt> dd if=busybox.floppy.img
+ of=/dev/fd0 ; sync </tt>
+
+ <li> Pop it in a machine and boot up.
+
+ </ol>
+
+ <p> If you want to look at the contents of the initrd image, do this:
+
+ <pre>
+ mount ./busybox.floppy.img /mnt -o loop -t msdos
+ cp /mnt/initrd.gz /tmp
+ umount /mnt
+ gunzip /tmp/initrd.gz
+ mount /tmp/initrd /mnt -o loop -t minix
+ </pre>
+
+
<li> <b>15 March 2001 -- BusyBox 0.50 released</b>
<br>