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Harsh But Fair: Lynx Can Save Your Life

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[ 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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