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diff --git a/docs/busybox.net/index.html b/docs/busybox.net/index.html index d7ceabd3f..7140470b0 100644 --- a/docs/busybox.net/index.html +++ b/docs/busybox.net/index.html @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ <TITLE>BusyBox</TITLE> </HEAD> -<body text="#000000" alink="#660000" link="#660000" bgcolor="#ffffff" vlink="#660000" background="images/background.png" > +<body text="#000000" alink="#660000" link="#660000" bgcolor="#dee2de" vlink="#660000"> <basefont face="lucida, helvetica, arial" size="3"> @@ -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>. <!-- Begin Download section --> @@ -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 <syslog.h> - - 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> - <!-- Begin Projects section --> <TR><TD BGCOLOR="#ccccc0" ALIGN=center> @@ -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> |