Software:ELinks

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Short description: Text-based web browser
ELinks
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Original author(s)Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca
Developer(s)Witold Filipczyk
Stable release
0.17.0 / 25 December, 2023
Repositorygithub.com/rkd77/elinks/
Written inC
Operating systemLinux, Unix
Available inEnglish, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German
TypeText-based web browser
LicenseGPL-2.0-only
Websitegithub.com/rkd77/elinks/

ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Unix-like operating systems.

It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.[1] On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.[2]

On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[3]

On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks meaning forked elinks.[4]

On 1 December, 2020, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks because the old elinks was no longer being actively maintained.[5]

Elinks is being actively maintained: version 0.17.0 was released 25 December 2023.[6]

Features

See also

References

External links

  • Baudis, Petr (2001-10-28). "[ANNOUNCE] Experimental Links Tree". elinks (Mailing list). Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2008-10-28.