Hi Lonnie, I use it mainly as a kind of emergency tool over VPN to access the WebGUI of a router, WLAN accesspoint, switch and such to e.g. reboot such a device, when I could not access these devices over http via VPN (e.g. when a route was missing, or a different gateway was set).
It was not very often, but when I needed it, it was a real help. Therefor I would like to keep it. If it has to be stripped, it could be be stripped for devices with small RAM like Alix or net5501. Sent from my iPad Michael > Am 28.07.2015 um 22:25 schrieb Lonnie Abelbeck <li...@lonnie.abelbeck.com>: > > Hi, > > We just updated "links" (command line web browser) to the latest version in > the SVN, but does anyone actually use it? > > I think I asked this over in the devel list some years ago, but time to ask > again. > > While "links" is kind of cool in principle, without Javascript and without > Image support (as we build it) it's usefulness seems very limited anymore. > It does allow you to view the AstLinux web interface via a serial console, > but actually using it redefines the word 'tedious'. > > Also "links" is large in size, almost 1 MB. > > So, does anyone use "links" or see a way it could get you out of a jam ? If > yes, I would be very curious how you use it. > > On the other hand if "links" is dead weight for us, we should disable it in > the default AstLinux builds. > > Lonnie > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Astlinux-users mailing list > Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users > > Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to > pay...@krisk.org. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Astlinux-users mailing list Astlinux-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/astlinux-users Donations to support AstLinux are graciously accepted via PayPal to pay...@krisk.org.
