Lineo has published a new version of BusyBox, with several important enhancements and bugfixes. Bruce Perens is the original author of BusyBox, which is kind of a “swiss army knife” utility, providing many basic Linux utilities in a single small executable. BusyBox is used on the Debian install floppies, by the Linux Router Project, and in Lineo's Embedix distribution of embedded linux. BusyBox is provided under the GPL.

See Freshmeat for the announcement of the release, or download the code directly from Lineo's FTP site at ftp.lineo.com/pub/busybox.

(Submitted by Tim Bird of Lineo.)

 
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