BusyBox 1.0.0-pre1 released [LWN.net]

Version 1.0.0-pre1 of BusyBox, an integrated collection of Unix-like command line utilities for embedded systems, has been released. The project has been fairly quiet this year, the previous release, version 0.60.5, was issued in October, 2002.

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The busybox development series has been under construction for nearly two years now. Which is just entirely too long... So it is with great pleasure that I announce the imminent release of a new stable series. Due to the huge number of changes since the last stable release (and the usual mindless version number inflation) I am branding this new stable series verison 1.0.x...

This version has been submitted for testing, the real version 1.0.0 release should happen sometime near the end of July, 2003 if all goes according to the plan. The Changelog file has lots of gory details concerning what has changed.

For embedded systems and minimalist Linux distributions, BusyBox is able to replace a large number of command line utilities as well as some common shells with a single binary that has a modest memory footprint. Developers who wish to further minimize the size of the binary can selectively compile in only the parts that are desired for the particular system. BusyBox can be built on most platforms that support GCC, the GNU Compiler Collection.

The project has a number of well known contributors including original author Bruce Perens of Debian fame, Linus Torvalds, and many other notable individuals. The current project maintainer is Erik Andersen.

For a list of the command line utilities that BusyBox mimics, as well as a full explanation of the utility, take a look at the online man page and README documents.

BusyBox has been released under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

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