Unix layouts?
- Thorogrimm
- Location: England, UK
- Main keyboard: Niz C103
- Main mouse: Razer Viper Mini
- Favorite switch: Topre Electro-Capacitive
What are some good keyboards with unix layouts? Currently I own an HHKB and a Sun Type 5 (but can't use it) and was wondering what others there are which are decent keyboards at the very least?
- Muirium
- µ
- Location: Edinburgh, Scotland
- Main keyboard: HHKB Type-S with Bluetooth by Hasu
- Main mouse: Apple Magic Mouse
- Favorite switch: Gotta Try 'Em All
- DT Pro Member: µ
DT’s authoritatively infallible and incontrovertibly complete wiki says UNIX layout pretty much is the HHKB:
![Image](https://deskthority.net/wiki/images/thumb/a/a0/UNIX_layout_basic.svg/616px-UNIX_layout_basic.svg.png)
I think (without split right Shift) it should be called Sun layout, but what would I know?![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
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Reading up on Sun keyboards (ignored them till now for f&f and domes) I must admit I like the looks of this one:
![Image](https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=52432)
![Image](https://deskthority.net/download/file.php?id=52433)
Beautiful design. Imagine that with switches deserving the name!
Also, yes, I see that Caps Lock in the usual (dumb) place and the split right Shift! The more I look, the less Sun boards follow the layout I thought was their legacy. Ah well.
![Image](https://deskthority.net/wiki/images/thumb/a/a0/UNIX_layout_basic.svg/616px-UNIX_layout_basic.svg.png)
I think (without split right Shift) it should be called Sun layout, but what would I know?
![Wink ;)](./images/smilies/icon_e_wink.gif)
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Reading up on Sun keyboards (ignored them till now for f&f and domes) I must admit I like the looks of this one:
Beautiful design. Imagine that with switches deserving the name!
Also, yes, I see that Caps Lock in the usual (dumb) place and the split right Shift! The more I look, the less Sun boards follow the layout I thought was their legacy. Ah well.
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- Location: The Netherlands
- Main keyboard: New Model F77
- Main mouse: Logitech Trackman Wheel
- Favorite switch: Beamspring
You should be looking at older Sun keyboards, they did it right.Muirium wrote: 10 Aug 2022, 22:27 Also, yes, I see that Caps Lock in the usual (dumb) place and the split right Shift! The more I look, the less Sun boards follow the layout I thought was their legacy. Ah well.
- Menuhin
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: HHKB PD-KB400BN lubed, has Hasu Bt Controller
- Main mouse: How to make scroll ring of Expert Mouse smoother?
- Favorite switch: Gateron ink lubed
- DT Pro Member: -
$25 + shipping solution:
https://www.drakware.com/shop/p/sun2usb
DIY solutions:
https://thp.io/2019/suniversal-adapter.html
https://github.com/xelalexv/suniversal
- Thorogrimm
- Location: England, UK
- Main keyboard: Niz C103
- Main mouse: Razer Viper Mini
- Favorite switch: Topre Electro-Capacitive
Thanks for the pointers!Menuhin wrote: 11 Aug 2022, 11:54$25 + shipping solution:
https://www.drakware.com/shop/p/sun2usb
DIY solutions:
https://thp.io/2019/suniversal-adapter.html
https://github.com/xelalexv/suniversal
I also need a cable for it though, which I don't currently have
![Laughing :lol:](./images/smilies/icon_lol.gif)
- Menuhin
- Location: Germany
- Main keyboard: HHKB PD-KB400BN lubed, has Hasu Bt Controller
- Main mouse: How to make scroll ring of Expert Mouse smoother?
- Favorite switch: Gateron ink lubed
- DT Pro Member: -
I like Sun's older keyboards as well as Silicon Graphics' "Granite" keyboards much more than most of the average IBM keyboards (model F & M) in terms of their overall industrial design.
RIP Sun MicroSystem & SGI...
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- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- DT Pro Member: 0011
BTW. There are many DIY keyboard kits for Cherry MX/style switches that support Unix layout as an option. The only physical difference from ANSI is the "split backspace". The rest is in the keycaps and programming.
Even though the hardware was discontinued a long time ago, some of the software still lives on in Illumos (open-source fork of Solaris), and the file-systems ZFS (Sun) and XFS (SGI) that are available in multiple OS:es.
TMK has Sun support too: https://github.com/tmk/tmk_keyboard/tre ... er/sun_usbMenuhin wrote: 11 Aug 2022, 11:54 DIY solutions:
https://thp.io/2019/suniversal-adapter.html
https://github.com/xelalexv/suniversal
Here here.
Even though the hardware was discontinued a long time ago, some of the software still lives on in Illumos (open-source fork of Solaris), and the file-systems ZFS (Sun) and XFS (SGI) that are available in multiple OS:es.