Links2 2.21 For PowerPC Panther ported by Alex Free
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About
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Links2 (homepage is at <
http://links.twibright.com/> ) is a web
browser capable of both a command line and graphical user interfaces.
This release is up to date as of 12/23/2020, and supports all PowerPC
Macs (604/G3/G4/G5) running Mac OS X 10.3.9 and above. Rosetta is
required for Intel Macs to run this build.
Links2 does not support javascript, but it is extremely fast and
because this build is 100% up to date TLS 1.3 is supported as well.
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Setup
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Download and unzip the latest release (r4). Double click the
Links2.app. Select either graphics mode or text mode.
The graphics mode requires /Applications/Utilities/X11.app to be
installed. The text mode does not. X11 is an optional install in the
OS installation of Mac OS X 10.3 and Mac OS X 10.4. On Mac OS X 10.3,
it was also provided as an additional separate download. I have
uploaded this version to the Macintosh Garden (
<
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/x11-panther> ). On Mac OS X 10.5 and
10.6 X11 is installed in the default OS installation.
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Advanced Usage
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You may want to use this release from the command line. For example,
you can use MacSSH ( <
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/macssh-21> ) on
Mac OS 9 (with Zlib compression disabled in MacSSH to allow it to
connect to newer OpenSSH versions) and run the Links2 text mode
remotely.
Since this is a portable release that can run anywhere, the commands
to run in graphics mode or text mode change depending on where
Links2.app is. In the below example commands, Links2.app is at
'/Applications/Links2.app'. Change '/Applications/Links2.app' in the
commands if Links2.app is somewhere else.
Text Mode:
/Applications/Links2.app/bin/links -ssl.certificates 1 -ssl.builtin-
certificates 1 -ssl.client-cert-crt
/Applications/Links2.app/cacert.pem
Graphics Mode:
/Applications/Links2.app/bin/linksx -g -ssl.certificates 1
-ssl.builtin-certificates 1 -ssl.client-cert-crt
/Applications/Links2.app/cacert.pem
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In This This Release (All up to date as of 12/23/2020)
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Links2 version 2.21 <
http://links.twibright.com>
Zlib version 1.2.11 <
https://zlib.net>
LibTiff version 4.1.0 <
http://libtiff.maptools.org/v4.1.0.html>
XZ version 5.2.5 <
https://tukaani.org/xz>
OpenSSL version 1.1.1i <
https://openssl.org>
LibPNG version 1.6.37 <
https://libpng.sourceforge.io>
JPEG version 9d <
https://www.ijg.org>
CA certificates extracted from Mozilla version 2020-12-08
<
https://curl.se/docs/caextract.html>
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Changelog
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12/23/2020 - Links2 R4
\- Links2.app is now a portable application, it can be ran from any
directory/volume on your Mac. You no longer need to copy it to
/Applications, just double click and select your preferred mode.
\- Updated Links2 to version 2.21.
\- Updated OpenSSL to version 1.1.1i.
\- Updated CA cert to 12/8/2020 extraction.
7/15/2020 - Links2 R3
\- Updated CA cert to 6/24/2020 Mozilla extraction.
4/24/2020 - Links2 R2
\- OpenSSL updated to latest version, 1.1.1g.
\- Added an App icon.
\- Fixed Mac OS X 10.3.9 compatibility.
\- Now compiled on Mac OS X 10.3.9, with GCC 3.3 & X11 SDK.
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Compiling
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Required:
\- X11 SDK.
\- Mac OS X 10.5.7 or 10.5.8
\- Xcode 3.1.4.
\- Build Select <
https://macintoshgarden.org/apps/build-select> .
cd into the source directory, and execute 'sudo ./build-all'.
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Licences
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Links is (c) 1999-2002 Mikulas Patocka, (c) 2000-2002 Karel Kulhavy,
Petr Kulhavy, Martin Pergel. Links is a free software. You can
redistribute it and/or modify under the terms of the GNU general
public license as published by the Free Software Foundation; either
version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
See the 'licenses' directory of each release for all documentation.
Authors
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Mgr. Mikulas Patocka
Mgr. Karel Kulhavy (Clock)
Mgr. Petr Kulhavy (Brain)
Mgr. Martin Pergel (PerM)
Compatibility
Architecture: PPC
PowerPC 604/G3/G4/G5 w/ Mac OS X 10.3.9-10.6.8 (Intel requires
Rosetta)
