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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> |
| <!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> | |
| <center> | |
| - | Click here to help buy busybox.net! |
| + | Click here to help support busybox.net! |
| <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> | |
| <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> | |
| <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]"> | |
| - | <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"> |
| <input type="hidden" name="no_shipping" value="1"> | |
| <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> | |
| </form> | |
| </center> | |
| <!-- End PayPal Logo --> | |
| - | 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 <insert argument |
| - | where she wins and I don't> 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> |
docs/busybox.net/oldnews.html+154 -0
| @@ -40,6 +40,160 @@ | |
| <p> <li> <b>Take me back to the <a href="http://busybox.net/">BusyBox</a> web site.</b> | |
| <hr> | |
| + | |
| + | |
| + | <li> <b>18 November 2001 -- Help us buy busybox.net!</b> |
| + | |
| + | <!-- Begin PayPal Logo --> |
| + | <center> |
| + | Click here to help buy busybox.net! |
| + | <form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post"> |
| + | <input type="hidden" name="cmd" value="_xclick"> |
| + | <input type="hidden" name="business" value="[email protected]"> |
| + | <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="no_shipping" value="1"> |
| + | <input type="image" src="images/donate.png" border="0" name="submit" alt="Make donation using PayPal"> |
| + | </form> |
| + | </center> |
| + | <!-- End PayPal Logo --> |
| + | |
| + | 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> |
| + | |
| + | I was going to pay it all myself, but my wife didn't like that |
| + | idea at all (big surprise). It turns out <insert argument |
| + | where she wins and I don't> 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! |
| + | <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 |
| + | <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> |
| + | |
| <li> <b>10 April 2001 -- BusyBox 0.51 released</b> | |
| <br> | |