Software for the Foxboard

Below is some software I compiled for the foxboard.

These applications are build for a Foxboard running a Linux 2.4 kernel and with glibc library (delivered by default with the FOX with Kernel 2.4.x)

You can download the cross-compiled versions below, but without any liability. Usage is completely on your own risk. However these programs are what is called free software, the rights of the authors are protected.

• busybox with crond, crontab and rdate [295.6 kb]
• cvs [225.2 kb]
• lynx-2.8.5 [803.7 kb]
• GNU m4-1.4.4 [39.4 kb]
• GNU make-3.81 [71.1 kb]
• ngird-0.9.2 [51 kb]
  turns your foxboard into a irc-server
• rsync 2.6.8 [134.1 kb]
• ScrollZ-1.9.98.1 [271.2 kb]
  ScrollZ is a very nice text mode irc-client, see scrollz.mindwipe.org

About these packages

I build these packages on a Slackware Linux box, using the SDK of Axis. This is how I use them:

In the foxboard I have put an USB-pen, with an ext2-formatted partition mounted to /usr/local.
The root of the USB-pen contains bin, etc, lib to create /usr/local/bin, /usr/local/etc/, /usr/local/lib. The packages mentioned above are put in these directories (except busybox, I did put that in the flash-image).

The cvs program works completely fine with dropbear (the standard replacement of ssh in the foxboard-image). So on a remote system you can do something like:

export CVS_RSH=ssh
cvs -d <username>@<hostname>:/path/to/repository checkout <directoryname>

Also when using rsync dropbear is completely transparent: it works exact like you would expect from ssh.