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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."
Is there a hotkey for First Post?
[sig]you really dont want the answers, trust me[/sig]
Is it just me, or are Hot Keys for thinks like Copying and Pasting really over rated, Ctrl-C, Ctrl-X, etc. (And the Linux Equivilants, i'm a Windows user) are subconcious to me at this point, rather than rooting around for some key at the top of the keyboard.
Was this the only article without a picture?
t ml
http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS8233268776.h
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.....
Will there be an Any key?
To-do List: Receive telemarketing call during a tornado warning. Check.
> 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.
Stick to Tux, buy a tuxsticker !
-truth
I had a steady B+ in my AI class until I failed the Turing test...
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.
Small potatoes make the steak look bigger.
The Ctrl key is in the placd God intended. Get the rubber-dome model for work to spare your coworkers the noice, get the buckling spring for home.
Generally, bash is superior to python in those environments where python is not installed.
At that price, and in such small production numbers, I have a feeling that the workmanship is shoddy
I can't speak to the usefulness of this thing, but I do work for a company that sells Cherry gear (point of sale things like...keyboards) and I have never seen a Cherry product I'd describe as shoddy. They may not make the best keyboards ever (that would be AT&T in the late 80s), but based on their other products I doubt the hardware is crap.
Not trying to pimp Cherry gear or anything...just sayin.
teeker
I don't understand why people complain about this. Using CTRL in the lower left corner is perfectly comfortable to me, and it's painful for me to use a Sun keyboard where CTRL is in the caps lock position.
What gives, do I have a weird bone structure in my hand or something?
Why LCD? Just give the buyer a bag of 10 keys with instructions on how to pop in the chosen keys.
The 5 pairs of keys would be:
Linux
BSD
Windows
Apple
Cherries
Get a free ipod.