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segasaturn01/17/20253 repliesview on HN

I remember Links, the text-based browser that runs in your terminal, had a framebuffer mode that you could use to get rudimentary graphical web browsing on a system with no X11 installed.


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prmoustache01/17/2025

I think netsurf can still be compiled for fb.

baq01/18/2025

May I introduce you to https://www.brow.sh/

LtWorf01/17/2025

Yeah, also mpv has a framebuffer driver. AFAIK Qt has one as well, so any Qt program could run without X/wayland.

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