Lindon, UT — (press release) — Lineo today announced the release of BusyBox 0.47, an upgrade to the so-called “Swiss army knife” of freely available open source embedded Linux utilities and tools. BusyBox 0.47 makes customizing embedded systems convenient and demonstrates the possibility of putting open source Linux software on the smallest electronic devices. BusyBox, with its easy-to-use utilities and tools, has allowed Linux developers to deploy embedded systems on products such as the IBM wristwatch and 3Com's Kerbango Internet Radio. (A list of the changes in 0.47 appears below.)

“Lineo has been an early pioneer in the open source, embedded Linux industry. We understand the importance of giving back to the community and have sponsored and funded several open source projects that have benefitted companies, organizations and people worldwide,” said Bob Waldie, COO of Lineo, Inc. “Lineo has many talented engineers providing royalty-free, open source software and we think the Linux industry has clearly benefitted from our innovations. A host of early technology adopters, like IBM, 3Com and others, are adopting our open source technology to underpin their new products and reduce time-to-market.”

Erik Anderson, senior software engineer at Lineo and maintainer of the BusyBox project, has been instrumental in providing substantial enhancements to the BusyBox open source project for the last year. “Many other developers, from both inside and outside of Lineo, have taken advantage of open source development methodology and made significant contributions to BusyBox resulting in a complete solution,” said Anderson.

Lineo also provides the sole sponsorship, development and funding for other open source projects including uClinux, PopTop, and many others. For a complete listing of Lineo's open source projects and to access all of the open source code for BusyBox, uClinux, PopTop and others, visit opensource.lineo.com.

What has changed in vers 0.47?

From http://busybox.lineo.com . . .

• This release fixes lots of bugs (including an ugly bug in 0.46 syslogd that could fork-bomb your system).

• Added several new apps: rdate, wget, getopt, dos2unix, unix2dos, reset, unrpm, renice, xargs, and expr. syslogd now supports network logging. There are the usual tar updates.

• Most apps now use getopt for more correct option parsing.

See the BusyBox changelog for complete details.

 
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