Xterasys has become the second company to settle its GPL infringement lawsuit with programmers of the Busybox collection of utilities. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and wrote ...

Maker of Linux-based digital TV devices agrees to abide by GPL requirements for publishing source code--and is paying the BusyBox programmers. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

Researchers discovered 14 vulnerabilities in the ‘Swiss Army Knife’ of the embedded OS used in many OT and IoT environments. They allow RCE, denial of service and data leaks. Researchers have ...

The developers of BusyBox made history a month ago with the settlement of the first lawsuit ever filed over violation of the GNU General Public License. Now it's making history again, with two more ...

I am have a mini busybox linux system up and running, but does anyone know how to get a console on a serial port with busy box?

Researchers at Trend Micro are warning that a new version of the Bashlite malware is using the ShellShock vulnerability (CVE-2014-6271) to gain control of devices using BusyBox. "Remote attackers can ...

Backed by the Software Freedom Law Center, creators of the BusyBox open source utility have settled a second lawsuit regarding GPL violations. Developers Erik Andersen and Rob Landley argued that ...