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:Harsh But Fair: Lynx Can Save Your Life
Harsh But Fair: Lynx Can Save Your Life
Aug 3, 2006, 11 :15 UTC (0 Talkback[s]) (5495 reads)

[ Thanks to Simon Stanford for this link. ]

"So why would you want a text based browser when you have the wonderful X windows experience of Firefox or Konqueror? Well the answer is when you break your X server and can't get a graphical login; just like I did the other day.

"Luckily I could login at a non-graphical terminal (Ctrl-Alt-F1) and then run lynx. This was able to get me to google where I could find the fix for my problem..."

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