The Lynx Web Browser
Lynx is a text-based Web browser for FreeBSD and other versions of UNIX. Of course, a text-based browser comes with the limitation of not being able to display inline graphics, and so on. Still, Lynx can be a fast way to browse the Web, especially on a slow connection because Lynx won't load any graphics. Lynx is available in FreeBSD ports collection. Figure 16.6 shows the Lynx Web browser with the FreeBSD home page loaded.
Figure 16.6. The Lynx Web browser displaying the FreeBSD home page.
To start the Lynx browser, type lynx at the command prompt, optionally followed by the address of a Web site that you want to load. (The ...
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