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Joshua Kinard posted on Wed, 14 Mar 2012 08:07:07 -0400 as excerpted: |
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> Ah, bluetooth keyboards. The luddite in me finds those quite the |
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> oddity. |
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> I still use only PS/2, specifically because it's less complex and less |
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> likely to fail on me in a time of need. |
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> Or, put more comically: |
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> http://megatokyo.com/strip/305 |
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I was in that group for a long time, myself, but eventually graduated to |
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a usb keyboard when I realized that the usb/wireless adapter I was using |
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for combined mouse/keyboard, only needed one plug when it was using usb, |
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two when using ps/2, and I was switching it around between computers. So |
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usb's the one I have setup in both BIOS and the kernel, now. |
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bluez keyboards require userspace, tho, I believe, thus the early-boot |
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factor we're discussing. If I had a choice I'd avoid that, just as you. |
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But some folks don't have that choice, or if they do it's between that |
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and a touchscreen, also requiring userspace. |
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I think rich0 is correct in viewing it as simply adding a few special- |
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casing scripts to the kernel tarball (initramfs), tho, adding to the |
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already special-case asm and the bootloader requirements... It's not |
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exactly pleasant to have to adapt, but at least most of the linux world |
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will eventually take it for granted. Well, probably most already does, |
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but now it's getting even MORE required. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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