ELinks

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ELinks
Original author(s) Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca
Developer(s) Witold Filipczyk
Stable release
0.17.0 / 2023-12-25
Preview release
0.17.0rc2 / 2023-12-10
Repository github.com/rkd77/elinks
Written in C, C++
Operating system Linux, DOS, Windows
Available in English, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German
Type Text-based web browser
License GPL-2.0-only
Website github.com/rkd77/elinks

ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Linux, DOS, and Windows operating systems.

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It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name. [1] Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended. [2] 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. [3]

On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers. [4]

On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks, meaning forked elinks. On 1 December 2020, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks, with permission from Baudiš, as the old ELinks was no longer being actively maintained. [5]

elinks is being actively maintained: preview version 0.17.0rc2 was released 10 December 2023, [6] while stable version 0.17.0 was released 25 December 2023. [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Baudiš, Petr (2001-10-28). "[ANNOUNCE] Experimental Links Tree". Gmane . Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  2. ↑ "The history and evolution of the Links browsers". ELinks . Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
  3. 1 2 Fonseca, Jonas (2004-12-24). "[elinks-users][ANNOUNCE] ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch . Archived from the original on 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  4. ↑ Barrett, Edd (2017-03-17). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree". MARC . Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  5. ↑ Filipczyk, Witold (2017-11-11). "rkd77/elinks: Fork of elinks". GitHub . Archived from the original on 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  6. ↑ Filipczyk, Witold (2023-12-10). "Release v0.17.0rc2 · rkd77/elinks". GitHub . Archived from the original on 2024-06-07. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  7. ↑ Filipczyk, Witold (2023-12-25). "Release v0.17.0 · rkd77/elinks". GitHub . Archived from the original on 2023-12-25. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 Bolso, Erik Inge (2005-03-08). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal . Archived from the original on 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
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