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Cherry Announces Linux keyboard

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the didn't-someone-do-this-already dept.

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."

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  1. Auto-sense the OS? by grunt107 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Why not ship the keyboard with software that detects the OS, and configures 'hot' keys based on said OS?

    AFA the 'Windows' key, charge a few pennies more and ship w/iconic keys for all 'major' OS-es.

    Or ship with spiffy EOTD (emoticon of the day) that the fashionistas can buy and traded (Pokeyboardmon).

  2. Let's pray for a G80 by hhnerkopfabbeisser · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Cherry's G80 series of keyboards is considered by many (including me) to provide the best tactile expierience since the old IBM-keyboards with click, but without the weight and noise.

    All other cherries I ever tried to type (G81 and G83) gave me the expierience that they wanted to break my fingers...

  3. Don't mind me if I'm wrong by The-Bus · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This seems like the classic misunderstanding of your market. My cut-and-dry view.

    1. Market: People who abhor the Dell keyboards that have 10 buttons for shopping and other keyboards filled with other useless crap.

    2. Product: Keyboard filled with useless crap.

    A better idea would be one with some fully customizable hot keys but with an emphasis on monitoring -- maybe a keyboard with some LCDs monitoring temperature, disk usage, etc. so precious screen space isn't used. Now that I would consider buying.

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  4. Re:Buy a keyboard... by jannic · · Score: 3, Interesting

    If this is a usb keyboard, they could include a storage device with a bootable linux preinstalled.

    Then, one of the function keys could be "reboot this machine and install linux immediately".

  5. No more application keys, rather navigation keys by thomasj · · Score: 3, Interesting
    I would rather like some new navigation keys:
    • Let TAB be tabular space and make a new "Next field" key.
    • Let ENTER be line break and make a new "Expand selection widget"
    • Make an "OK" key to accelerate form/dialog-box submission and a "Cancel" one too
    • Make some "Zoom in"/"Zoom out"/"Scroll"/"Pan"/"Bank"/"Tilt"/etc and free the cursor-keys/PgUp/PgDn
    • ...
    • Write a CUA-addendum with specifics and examples
    I don't need a key to open my email client. It opens when I log on.
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