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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/index.html b/docs/busybox.net/index.html index 2af4c5f8c..9242e759e 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/index.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/index.html @@ -1,495 +1,63 @@ -<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN" -"http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/loose.dtd"> +<!--#include file="header.html" --> -<html> - <head> - <meta name="generator" content= - "HTML Tidy for Linux/x86 (vers 1st February 2002), see www.w3.org"> - <title>BusyBox</title> -<style type="text/css"> - body { - background-color: #DEE2DE; - color: #000000; - } - :link { color: #660000 } - :visited { color: #660000 } - :active { color: #660000 } - td.c2 {font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 80%} - td.c1 {font-family: lucida, helvetica; font-size: 248%} -</style> - </head> +<!-- Begin Introduction section --> - <body> - <basefont face="lucida, helvetica, arial" size="3"> +<h3>BusyBox: The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</h3> - <div class="c3"> - <table border="0" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="2"> - <tr> - <td class="c1">BUSYBOX</td> - </tr> - </table> - <a href="/"><img src="images/busybox1.png" alt="BusyBox" - border="0" width="164" height="116"></a><br> - <!-- Begin Introduction section --> - - <table width="95%" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="4" border= - "1"> - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= "intro"><big> - <b>The Swiss Army Knife of Embedded Linux</b> - </big></a></td> - </tr> +BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities into a single +small executable. It provides replacements for most of the utilities you +usually find in GNU fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox +generally have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; however, +the options that are included provide the expected functionality and behave +very much like their GNU counterparts. BusyBox provides a fairly complete +environment for any small or embedded system. - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0"> - BusyBox combines tiny versions of many common UNIX utilities - into a single small executable. It provides minimalist - replacements for most of the utilities you usually find in GNU - fileutils, shellutils, etc. The utilities in BusyBox generally - have fewer options than their full-featured GNU cousins; - however, the options that are included provide the expected - functionality and behave very much like their GNU counterparts. - BusyBox provides a fairly complete POSIX environment for any - small or embedded system. +<p> - <p>BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and - limited resources in mind. It is also extremely modular - so you can easily include or exclude commands (or - features) at compile time. This makes it easy to - customize your embedded systems. To create a working - system, just add /dev, /etc, and a kernel.</p> +BusyBox has been written with size-optimization and limited resources in +mind. It is also extremely modular so you can easily include or exclude +commands (or features) at compile time. This makes it easy to customize +your embedded systems. To create a working system, just add some device +nodes in /dev, a few configuration files in /etc, and a Linux kernel. - <p>BusyBox is maintained by <a href= - "http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik - Andersen</a>, and licensed under the <a href= - "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL - PUBLIC LICENSE</a>.</p> +<p> - <h3>Screenshot</h3> +BusyBox is maintained by <a href= +"http://codepoet.org/andersen/erik/erik.html">Erik Andersen</a>, and +licensed under the +<a href= "http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html">GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE</a> - <p>Because everybody loves screenshots, a screenshot of - BusyBox is now available <a href= - "screenshot.html">right here</a>.</p> +<p> +<p> - <h3>Mailing List Information</h3> - BusyBox has a <a href="/lists/busybox/">mailing list</a>.<br> - To subscribe, go and visit <a href="/mailman/listinfo/busybox">this page</a>. - <br> - Before asking questions on the mailing list - you should probably first search the mailing list archives... - <form method="GET" action="http://www.google.com/custom"> - <input type="hidden" name="domains" value="busybox.net"> - <input type="hidden" name="sitesearch" value="busybox.net"> - <a href="http://www.google.com"><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/Logo_25wht.gif" border="0" alt="Google" height="32" width="75" align="middle"></a> <input type="text" name="q" size="31" maxlength="255" value=""> <input type="submit" name="sa" value="search the mailing list archives">... - </form> +<h3>Sponsors</h3> +Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their +support! They have provided money for equipment and +bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project, +consider these fine companies! - <!-- Begin Latest News section --> - </td> - </tr> +<ul> + <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br> + Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms + </li> - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= - "news"><big><b>Latest News</b></big></a></td> - </tr> + <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br> + Embedded open source consulting in Europe. + </li> - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0"> - <ul> + <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br> + Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc + development. + </li> - <p> - <li><b>12 Sept 2003 -- BusyBox 1.0.0-pre3 released</b><p> +</ul> - Here goes the third pre-release for the new BusyBox stable - series. The last prerelease has held up quite well under - testing, but a number of problems have turned up as the number - of people using it has increased. Thanks everyone for all - the testing, bug reports, and patches! +If you wish to be a sponsor, or if you have already contributed and would like +your name added here, email <a href= "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>. - <p> - - If you have submitted a patch or a bug report to the busybox - mailing list and no one has emailed you explaining why your - patch was rejected, it is safe to say that your patch has - somehow gotten lost or forgotten. That happens sometimes. - Please re-submit your patch or bug report to the BusyBox - mailing list! - - <p> - - The point of the "-preX" versions is to get a larger group of - people and vendors testing, so any problems that turn up can be - fixed prior to the final 1.0.0 release. The main feature - (besides additional testing) that is still still on the TODO - list before the final BusyBox 1.0.0 release is sorting out the - modutils issues. For the new 2.6.x kernels, we already have - patches adding insmod and rmmod support and those need to be - integrated. For 2.4.x kernels, for which busybox only supports - a limited number of architectures, we may want to invest a bit - more work before we cut 1.0.0. Or we may just leave 2.4.x - module loading alone. - - <p> - - I had hoped this release would be out a month ago. And of - course, it wasn't since Erik became busy getting a release of - <a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> - out the door. Many thanks to Glenn McGrath (bug1) for - stepping in and helping get a bunch of patches merged! I am - not even going to state a date for releasing BusyBox 1.0.0 - -pre4 (or the final 1.0.0). We're aiming for late September... - But if this release proves as to be exceptionally stable (or - exceptionally unstable!), the next release may be very soon - indeed. - - <p> - - The <a href="downloads/Changelog">changelog</a> has all - the details. And as usual you can - <a href="downloads">download busybox here</a>. - - <p>Have Fun! - <p> - - - - <p> - <li><b>Old News</b><br> - For the old news, visit <a href="oldnews.html">the - old news page</a>.</li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - - - <!-- Begin Sponsors section --> - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= - "sponsors"><big><b>Sponsors</b></big></a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0"> - Please visit our sponsors and thank them for their - support! They have provided money for equipment and - bandwidth. Next time you need help with a project, - consider these fine companies! - - - <ul> - <li><a href="http://www.penguru.net">Penguru Consulting</a><br> - Custom development for embedded Linux systems and multimedia platforms - </li> - - <li><a href="http://opensource.se/">opensource.se</a><br> - Embedded open source consulting in Europe. - </li> - - <li><a href="http://www.codepoet-consulting.com">Codepoet Consulting</a><br> - Custom Linux, embedded Linux, BusyBox, and uClibc - development. - </li> - - </ul> - Several individuals have also contributed. If you have - already contributed and would like your name added - here, just let me know. If you would like to be a - BusyBox sponsor, email <a href= - "mailto:andersen@codepoet.org">Erik</a>. - </td> - </tr> - - <!-- Begin Download section --> - <p> - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= - "download"><big><b>Download</b></big></a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0"> - Source for the latest release can always be - downloaded from <a href="downloads">http://www.busybox.net/downloads</a>. - <p> - - BusyBox now has <b>two</b> CVS trees. The "busybox-stable" tree - contains the older 0.60.x stable series. The "busybox" tree contains - the latest 1.0.0-preX development version of busybox.<br> - - <ul> - <li><a href= "downloads/snapshots/">Daily Snapshots of the the latest - stable, and the latest development CVS source trees can be found right here</a>. - <br> - </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox/">Click here to browse the CVS - tree for the 1.0.0-preX development version of BusyBox</a> - </li><li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/busybox.stable/">Click here to browse - the CVS tree for the stable 0.60.x version of BusyBox</a>. - </li><li>Anonymous <a href="cvs_anon.html">CVS - access</a> is available. - </li><li>For those that are actively contributing there is - even <a href="cvs_write.html">CVS write access</a>.</li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - - <!-- Begin Docs section --> - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= - "docs"><big><b>Documentation</b></big></a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0"> - Current documentation for BusyBox includes: - - <ul> - <li><a href= - "downloads/BusyBox.html">BusyBox.html</a>. This is a - list of the all the available commands in BusyBox - with complete usage information and examples of how - to use each app. I have spent a <em>lot</em> of time - updating these docs and trying to make them fairly - comprehensive. If you find any errors (factual, - grammatical, whatever) please let me know.</li> - - <li><a href="downloads/README">README</a>. This is - the README file included in the busybox source - release.</li> - - <li>If you need more help, the BusyBox <a href= - "lists/busybox/">mailing list</a> is a good place to - start.</li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - - <!-- Begin Links section --> - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= - "links"><big><b>Important Links</b></big></a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0"> - <ul> - <li><a href="http://perens.com/FreeSoftware/">Free - Software from Bruce Perens</a><br> - The original idea for BusyBox, and all versions up - to 0.26 were written by <a href= - "mailto:bruce@perens.com">Bruce Perens</a>. This is - his BusyBox website.</li> - - <li><a href= - "http://freshmeat.net/projects/busybox/">Freshmeat - AppIndex record for BusyBox</a></li> - - <li><a href= - "http://tinylogin.busybox.net/">TinyLogin</a> is a - nice embedded tool for handling authentication, - changing passwords, and similar tasks which nicely - complements BusyBox.</li> - - <li><a href="http://udhcp.busybox.net/">udhcp</a> is - a tiny dhcp client and/or server which is ideal for - embedded systems.</li> - - <li><a href="http://www.uclibc.org/">uClibc</a> is a - C library for embedded systems. You can actually - statically link a "Hello World" application under x86 - that only takes 4k (as opposed to 200k under GNU - libc). It can do dynamic linking too and works nicely - with BusyBox to create very small embedded Linux systems. - </li> - </ul> - </td> - </tr> - - <!-- Begin Projects section --> - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#CCCCC0" align="center"><a name= - "projects"><big><b>Products/Projects Using BusyBox</b></big></a></td> - </tr> - - <tr> - <td bgcolor="#EEEEE0"> - <p>I know of the following products and/or projects - that use BusyBox -- listed in the order I happen to add - them to the web page:</p> - - <ul> - - - <li><a href="/cgi-bin/cvsweb/buildroot/">buildroot</a> a configurable - means for building your own busybox/uClibc based system systems. - - </li><li><a href= - "http://cvs.debian.org/boot-floppies/"> - Debian installer (boot floppies) project</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://redhat.com/">Red Hat installer</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/source/rootdsks/"> - Slackware Installer</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://www.gentoo.org/">Gentoo Linux install/boot CDs</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.mandrake.com/">The Mandrake installer</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://Leaf.SourceForge.net">Linux Embedded Appliance Firewall (the sucessor of the Linux Router Project) supporting all sorts of embedded Linux gateways, routers, wireless routers, and firewalls,</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://linux-embedded.org/">LEM</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://www.toms.net/rb/">tomsrtbt</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://www.stormix.com/">Stormix - Installer</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://www.emacinc.com/linux2_sbc.htm">EMAC Linux - 2.0 SBC</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://www.trinux.org/">Trinux</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://oddas.sourceforge.net/">ODDAS - project</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://byld.sourceforge.net/">Build Your - Linux Disk</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://homepages.ihug.co.nz/~ichi/baslinux.html">BasicLinux</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/system/recovery">Zdisk</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://www.adtran.com">AdTran - - VPN/firewall VPN Linux Distribution</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://mkcdrec.ota.be/">mkCDrec - make - CD-ROM recovery</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://recycle.lbl.gov/~ldoolitt/bse/">Linux on - nanoEngine</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/">Floppyfw</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://midori.transmeta.com/">Midori - Linux</a> - <a href= - "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399,00.html"> - Article on Midori Linux</a> on <a href= - "http://www.wired.com">Wired</a>. Quote from Erik at - the top of <a href= - "http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,42399-2,00.html"> - this page</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://www.ltsp.org/">Linux Terminal - Server Project</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://www.devil-linux.org/">Devil-Linux</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://dutnux.sourceforge.net/">DutNux</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/mindi/">Mindi</a> - - </li><li><a href= - "http://www.tzi.de/~pharao90/ttylinux">ttylinux</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://www.coyotelinux.com/">Coyote Linux</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://www.partimage.org/">Partition - Image</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://www.fli4l.de/">fli4l the on(e)-disk-router</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://tinfoilhat.cultists.net/">Tinfoil - Hat Linux</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://familiar.handhelds.org/">Familiar Linux</a> - a linux distribution for handheld computers - </li><li><a href="http://rescuecd.sourceforge.net/">Timo's Rescue CD Set</a> - </li><li><a href="http://sf.net/projects/netstation/">Netstation</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.fiwix.org/">GNU/Fiwix Operating System</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.softcraft.com/">Generations Linux</a> - </li><li><a href="http://systemimager.org/relatedprojects/">SystemImager / System Installation Suite</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.bablokb.de/gendist/">GENDIST distribution generator</a> - </li><li><a href="http://diet-pc.sourceforge.net/">DIET-PC embedded Linux thin client distribution</a> - </li><li><a href="http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/">BYZantine Gnu/Linux</a> - </li><li><a href="http://dban.sourceforge.net/">Darik's Boot and Nuke</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.timesys.com/">TimeSys real-time Linux</a> - </li><li><a href="http://movix.sf.net/">MoviX</a> -- boots from CD and automatically plays every video file on the CD - </li><li><a href="http://katamaran.sourceforge.net">katamaran</a>Linux, X11, xfce windowmanager, based on BusyBox - </li><li><a href="http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/simplygnustep">Prometheus SimplyGNUstep</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.renyi.hu/~ekho/lowlife/">lowlife</a>A documentation project on how to make your own uClibc-based systems and floppy. - </li><li><a href="http://metadistros.hispalinux.es/">Metadistros</a>a project to allow you easily make Live-CD distributions. - </li><li><a href="http://salvare.sourceforge.net/">Salvare</a>More Linux than tomsrtbt but less than Knoppix, aims to provide a useful workstation as well as a rescue disk. - </li><li><a href="http://www.stresslinux.org/">stresslinux</a>minimal linux distribution running from a bootable cdrom or via PXE. - </li><li><a href="http://thinstation.sourceforge.net/">thinstation</a>convert standard PCs into full-featured diskless thinclients. - </li><li><a href="http://www.uhulinux.hu/">UHU-Linux Hungary</a> - - </li><li><a href="http://tuxscreen.net">Tuxscreen Linux Phone</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.kerbango.com/">The Kerbango Internet Radio</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.linuxmagic.com/vpn/">LinuxMagic VPN Firewall</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.isilver-inc.com/">I-Silver Linux appliance servers</a> - </li><li><a href="http://zaurus.sourceforge.net/">Sharp Zaurus PDA</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.cyclades.com/">Cyclades-TS and other Cyclades products</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.buffalo-technology.com/products/wireless/wbr-g54.htm">Buffalo WBR-G54 wireless router</a> - </li><li><a href="http://catalog.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Merchant_Id=&Section_Id=201522&pcount=&Product_Id=136493">Belkin 54g Wireless DSL/Cable Gateway Router</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.linksys.com/products/product.asp?prid=508">Linksys WRT54G - Wireless-G Broadband Router</a> - </li><li><a href="http://www.dell.com/us/en/biz/topics/sbtopic_005_truemobile.htm">Dell TrueMobile 1184</a> - </li><li><a href="http://actiontec.com/products/modems/dual_pcmodem/dpm_overview.html">Actiontec Dual PC Modem</a> - - - </ul> - - <p>Do you use BusyBox? 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