Subj : Old Distro Broken Browser
To   : Brad Hansen
From : Maurice Kinal
Date : Sun Aug 29 2021 12:41 am

-={ 2021-08-29 00:41:00.802994777+00:00 }=-

Hey Brad!

BH> They have killed the old school command line clients

That happened ages ago.  Here is something that might be of interest;

# ldd /usr/bin/lynx
       linux-vdso.so.1 (0x00007fffe8ef4000)
       libz.so.1 => /lib/libz.so.1 (0x00007f65f8882000)
       libbz2.so.1.0 => /lib/libbz2.so.1.0 (0x00007f65f886f000)
       libncursesw.so.6 => /lib/libncursesw.so.6 (0x00007f65f8814000)
       libssl.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/libssl.so.1.1 (0x00007f65f8793000)
       libcrypto.so.1.1 => /usr/lib/libcrypto.so.1.1 (0x00007f65f850e000)
       libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f65f8388000)
       libdl.so.2 => /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x00007f65f8381000)
       libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f65f8364000)
       /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f65f8899000)

# file /usr/bin/lynx
/usr/bin/lynx: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV), dynamically linked, interpreter /lib/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2, for GNU/Linux 4.4.0, stripped

# lynx -version
Lynx Version 2.8.9rel.1 (08 Jul 2018)
libwww-FM 2.14, SSL-MM 1.4.1, OpenSSL 1.1.1l, ncurses 6.2.20200212(wide)
Built on linux-gnu (Aug 28 2021 06:12:20).

Copyrights held by the Lynx Developers Group,
the University of Kansas, CERN, and other contributors.
Distributed under the GNU General Public License (Version 2).
See https://lynx.invisible-island.net/ and the online help for more information.

See http://www.openssl.org/ for information about OpenSSL.

Not exactly backwards compatible but it most definetly is an old school commandline client if there ever was one.  I've been using it for around 30 years now on a wide variety of platforms.

Life is good,
Maurice

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