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Cherry Announces Linux keyboard
Errtu76 writes "ZDnet says Cherry has announced a specially designed Linux keyboard that will be available in the UK, Ireland and Germany later this year.
The Cherry CyMotion Master Linux keyboard has the Linux penguin logo, Tux, instead of the Windows start key and features 29 hot keys. The hot keys are configured for the Linux operating system and desktop applications, simplifying actions such as cutting, copying and pasting text, and moving between Web pages.
PCworld has a little more info on the keyboard."
"We want to first see if the product is successful. The Windows market is bigger, but other manufacturers have yet to focus on the Linux market."
See their problem is that they are catering to two separate markets. I say they cater to everyone. Make the "Windows key" a changeable screen (LCD?) and you can put whatever you want there!
In the mood to smash the shit out of Darl's face? Want to give Bill Gates what he deserves? Want to break a window? Didn't get that raise - picture of your PHB! Wife fucking a nerdy guy than you - picture of nerd #2 hanging from his SCSI cable!
I can finally get rid of that nasty sand-filled balloon to relieve stress! *hugs Darl key*
Is that it doesn't work with the Windows keyboard driver, so there's no way you can use Windows with it! Great for family and friends you're trying to get to use linux.
Is there a hotkey for First Post?
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If the wife is "fucking a nerdier guy than you," I'd hope that you'd do more than change the appearance of the windows key...
Kummer has already found some users keen to simply replace the Windows start key with Tux.
Oh come on. That's just petty, isn't it?
Yeeesssss. It's the only damn thing I really want from a keyboard. Oh, and an Undo key. Oh yeah, and a foot pedal controlling the capitalization. And get rid of the Alt key. And the Escape, while your at it.
... get a free OS?
:-)
"In addition, the keyboard comes with a CD including a special edition of SuSE Linux 9.1 from Novell"...
How long till we get special versions of RedHat or SuSE free with our breakfast cerial.....
Yes, but for entirely different reasons. It really sucks when you're playing a video game and accidentally tap the windows key. Especially when something is trying to bite your knee caps off.
:(
Will there be an Any key?
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
They need the 29 other keys for emacs.
A fine is a tax you pay for doing wrong and a tax is a fine you pay for doing all right.
I hope the hot keys are mapped to usefull functions such as:
tux key + M + S = email Bill Gates hate mail
I hope this keyboard has an internet button like Compaq's keyboards do! Finally the internet could be coming to linux!
> Does the Windows key really piss you off *that much*?
You're not from around here, are you?
Keep your friends close.
Keep your enemies in a little jar on your desk.
How do you think I feel? I have fire bound to CTRL, jump on ALT and look down on DEL.
Rocket-jumping hurts.
my sig's at the bottom of the page.
-truth
I had a steady B+ in my AI class until I failed the Turing test...
We already have these. They're called "function keys." Why people refuse to use them is totally beyond me.
Sacrilege! We all know that all true emacs functions require at least three modifier keys! We'll have none of this stupid single keypress to perform a simple function crap!
Ctrl-Alt-Meta-RightShift-Tab-W is what I use for "Submit Slashdot Post."
I was about to copy that URL into my browser, but then I realized I didn't have a copy nor a paste hotkey.
What's this "SCO" key ? I pressed it, and everyone I know got slapped with a frivolous lawsuit.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
Tim
My IBM 42H1292 keyboard is the only one I will use. My noisy clacking will destroy your puny membrane switches!
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If only there were some large shopping sort of place where you might find such a thing. Oh, and if it could be on the information superhighway, that would make it even better.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I mean with most keyboards having pop removeable keys its cheaper to buy a cheap 20$ keyboard and reclick them into the dvorak layout.
No, no, no. You leave the keys where they are, and draw the dvorak letters on the downhill side of the key with a pencil. You're going to be touch typing anyway, right?
That way you can let QWERTY hunt-n-peckers use your keyboard too.
I knew a guy in college who was geeky enough to type Dvorak & run linux, but not geeky enough to figure out how to make all his X windows use the Dvorak layout. He had to switch them individually somehow. But he wouldn't always do it. And focus-follows-mouse was on, so depending on where the mouse was, the keyboard would switch from Dvorak to QWERTY.
So he could (and would) type ~120 wpm Dvorak & ~100 wpm QWERTY. It totally boggles the mind to imagine how much of his motor cortex was devoted to typing. He probably dreamt about typing.
There are no trails. There are no trees out here.
This is a KEYBOARD. Real Men don't use mice for editing.