"What can a Linux user do if you've been dumped to a black
screen with a terminal prompt with a cursor blinking at you and you
REALLY need access to troubleshooting information NOW? No GUI, no
Firefox, no Opera. Hard drive indexing tools are generally GUI
access, and just because the info is on your hard drive does not
mean you necessarily know where in the filetree it is, and the
locate command doesn't seem to work all the time.
"But if one still has network access all is not lost.
"The majority of Linux distros have a text-based web browser
available, either installed by default or readily available via
automated repository installation. You can use it to search for
troubleshooting information.
"It's called lynx. While any long-time Linux user knows lynx,
long-time Linux users are becoming an increasingly small fraction
of the Linux userbase. That's the reason for this article."
