Links is powerful text WWW browser with tables and frames. It runs in linux terminal providing a faster access to internet especially on slow connection. Its completely text based, so that you cant use it as a complete replacement for usual browsers since terminal can not display images. Also since text based it can be a used for faster acces of internet when you are using mobile internet.

The bulk of the extra content consists of HTML tags and links. It's difficult to say how much cruft there is — much of it is Javascript, and I used a non-Javascript web browser for some of this analysis — but a naive dump of the content reveals 128 URLs.

ELinks is an advanced and well-established feature-rich text mode web (HTTP/FTP/..) browser. ELinks can render both frames and tables, is highly customizable and can be extended via Lua or Guile scripts. It is quite portable and runs on a variety of platforms.

In 1976 one man changed the face of text editors. That man is Bill Joy who developed vi for BSD UNIX. To those who are a bit unfamiliar with command line UNIX/Linux, vi (short for Visual) is a screen-oriented text editor that operates in two modes: insert mode and normal mode. Please reference here for a deeper explanation of its design and implementation.

"...Let me repeat. People don't create links to server software; they create links to information. Service Oriented Architectures are about creating links to software. Resource Oriented Architectures are about creating links to information. Change your frame of reference."

Zim is a WYSIWYG text editor written in Gtk2-Perl. It aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically. Zim handles several types of markup, like headings, bullet lists and of course bold, italic and highlighted.

f you want to read long web pages and don't like to see the dirty graphics , install elinks. It is available on almost all distributions.

This is a collection of links compiled by Roy Schestowitz, a bit of a round up. Some of these articles have been submitted to fsdaily separately, but I thought Roy's compilation should be seen anyway.

Here is a Perl script that scans a given directory for symbolic links. It also reports whether those links are broken or not.