ELinks is a free text-based web browser for Linux, DOS, and Windows operating systems.

ELinks
Original author(s)Petr Baudiš, Jonas Fonseca
Developer(s)Witold Filipczyk
Stable release
0.17.0 / 2023-12-25
Preview release
0.17.0rc2 / 2023-12-10
Repositorygithub.com/rkd77/elinks
Written inC, C++
Operating systemLinux, DOS, Windows
Available inEnglish, Polish, Danish, French, Serbian, Hungarian, Czech, German
TypeText-based web browser
LicenseGPL-2.0-only
Websitegithub.com/rkd77/elinks

It began in late 2001 as an experimental fork by Petr Baudiš of the Links Web browser, hence the E in the name.[1] Since then, the E has come to stand for Enhanced or Extended.[2] On 1 September 2004, Baudiš handed maintainership of the project over to Danish developer Jonas Fonseca, citing a lack of time and interest and a desire to spend more time coding rather than reviewing and organising releases.[3]

On 17 March 2017, OpenBSD removed ELinks from its ports tree, citing concerns with security issues and lack of responsiveness from the developers.[4]

On 17 November 2017, ELinks was forked into another program called felinks, meaning forked elinks. On 1 December 2020, the felinks repository on GitHub was renamed to elinks, with permission from Baudiš, as the old ELinks was no longer being actively maintained.[5]

elinks is being actively maintained: preview version 0.17.0rc2 was released 10 December 2023,[6] while stable version 0.17.0 was released 25 December 2023.[7]

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References

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  1. ^ Baudiš, Petr (2001-10-28). "[ANNOUNCE] Experimental Links Tree". Gmane. Archived from the original on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2008-10-28.
  2. ^ "The history and evolution of the Links browsers". ELinks. Archived from the original on 2011-07-18. Retrieved 2010-12-14.
  3. ^ a b Fonseca, Jonas (2004-12-24). "[elinks-users] [ANNOUNCE] ELinks-0.10.0 (Thelma)". Linux From Scratch. Archived from the original on 2019-02-24. Retrieved 2019-02-24.
  4. ^ Barrett, Edd (2017-03-17). "Remove www/elinks from the ports tree". MARC. Archived from the original on 2021-10-22. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  5. ^ Filipczyk, Witold (2017-11-11). "rkd77/elinks: Fork of elinks". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2020-12-13. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  6. ^ Filipczyk, Witold (2023-12-10). "Release v0.17.0rc2 · rkd77/elinks". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2024-06-07. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  7. ^ Filipczyk, Witold (2023-12-25). "Release v0.17.0 · rkd77/elinks". GitHub. Archived from the original on 2023-12-25. Retrieved 2024-06-07.
  8. ^ a b c d e Bolso, Erik Inge (2005-03-08). "2005 Text Mode Browser Roundup". Linux Journal. Archived from the original on 2017-12-14. Retrieved 2010-08-05.
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