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Subject:    [BusyBox] BusyBox 0.60.2 released
From:       Erik Andersen <andersen () codepoet ! org>
Date:       2001-11-20 5:45:15
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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.

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 changelog at

	ftp://busybox.net/busybox/Changelog

for (most of) the details.  The last release was _very_ solid for people,
and this one should be even better.  As usual BusyBox 0.60.2 can be downloaded from 
	 ftp://busybox.net/busybox

On a slightly different topic, (again quoting from the webpage): 

    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 _know_ 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.

    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...

    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!

There is now a link on the busybox webpage were you can contribute via
paypal to a noble cause.

 -Erik

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Erik B. Andersen             http://codepoet-consulting.com/
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