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View Poll Results: Do you use lynx?
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I stay away from CLI. X rocks!
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Lynx is very confusing. I tried using it.
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I use it but not very often
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Lynx ownz
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06-02-2006, 01:21 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 77
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How many of you likes to use Lynx?
Lynx is a very nice CLI browser. ATM my X is broken. I am recently researching how to get it back up. Maybe i'll post the error message after some time so you guys may help me out too.
I like lynx, its cool, looks l33t and geeky.
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06-02-2006, 01:50 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: The grassy knoll
Distribution: Slackware,Debian
Posts: 192
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Lynx is the Master of the Internet.
Not only is it a web browser but it makes a nice file system browser.
And anything that still supports Gopher is just ... well, I'll just say it kinda makes me all maudlin and sniffly.
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06-02-2006, 01:52 AM
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LQ Addict
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: London, UK
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 7,464
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I use Lynx, but only when I'm not using X (which isn't very often).
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06-02-2006, 01:53 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2004
Location: The Netherlands
Distribution: Mandrake, Knoppix, Coyote Linux, RedHat
Posts: 354
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Lynx is good for checking out suspicious webservers, remote administration over slow links and as a network connectivity tool.
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06-02-2006, 02:08 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 77
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Wow I did not know that Lynx can do all those stuff. Lynx is still pretty daunting for me.
Maybe i'll have some of my free time to read more about Lynx.
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06-02-2006, 02:36 AM
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Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Seattle, WA
Distribution: Kubuntu 14.04 LTS
Posts: 915
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I used to use Lynx quite often when I was in school. We only had UNIX dumb terminals in the lab.
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06-02-2006, 03:21 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Malaysia - KULMY / CNXTH
Distribution: Slackware, Fedora, FreeBSD, Sun O/S 5.10, CentOS
Posts: 787
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lynx is good as network administrator stuff i use it more for technical purpose
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06-02-2006, 03:49 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2004
Location: The Netherlands
Distribution: RedHat 2, 3, 4, 5, Fedora, SuSE, Gentoo
Posts: 372
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Where possible, I even prefer 'links' over lynx.
I don't know if lynx has catched up lately, but the power of links over lynx at least was that it supported cookies / frames (and perhaps javascript ??). Not to mention background downloading .
Further, lynx is a pretty nifty tool
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06-02-2006, 04:40 AM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: Belguim, Ostend and Ghent
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 600
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It certainly comes in handy when things get messy, e.g. when cannot access X and are in some serious trouble. I wouldn't recommend it as your standard browser though...
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06-02-2006, 07:49 AM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Location: chained to my console.
Distribution: LFS 6.1
Posts: 143
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lynx (and links) are both valuable tools when it all goes horribly wrong. when x wont start and nothing seems to be working right, you can come and browse linuxquestions.org in lynx, just to reassure yourself that its not just you going insane.
i'm kidding, but lynx (and more often these days, links) is one tool i would never be without.
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06-02-2006, 08:31 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: far enough
Distribution: OS X 10.6.7
Posts: 1,690
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Any text tool like vi, lynx , mc,emacs , etc. is good to know where you use a unix/linux system :
- when you only have a ssh access and have to perform some tasks
- when you have to repair a system
- etc.
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06-02-2006, 10:10 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2005
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 77
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I am yet to discover the other features of lynx. As of now my X is still not running lol and im using lynx to browse the net. Nice tool.
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06-02-2006, 10:45 AM
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Member
Registered: Jan 2004
Location: /lost+found
Distribution: Slackware 14.2
Posts: 849
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I always use lynx for my CLI browser. It's a great tool.
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06-02-2006, 12:43 PM
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Member
Registered: May 2005
Location: München, Germany
Distribution: Slackware, Arch
Posts: 386
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I prefer links. It's more familiar than lynx. But both are pretty darn useful =)
-A
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06-02-2006, 05:15 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2002
Location: germany
Distribution: ubuntu, mint, suse
Posts: 1,591
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u may use it from php scripts, too i. e. if u need a response from a remote server...
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