Mac keyboards work on FreeBSD

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drhowarddrfine

I know many of you probably already know this but I thought I'd put this here. I took the keyboard from the older Mac all-in-one desktop (forgot what that's called) and plugged it into a USB port of my year-old, FreeBSD9.3 workstation at home and it worked straight away. I only tried a few alt-this, cmd-that things in i3 window manager, and I have to return it to work this morning so I might have missed something but I love this keyboard and it's good to know I can buy one and use it at the home office.
 
Do try the '@' key - depending on the keyboard layout it might not be where you expect it to be. At least that is the case for Norwegian layout keyboards.
 
Yes, the mac keyboards are not anything special compared to standard USB PC keyboards and they just work in general except for the rather non-standard layout.
 
I have used for 10 years a g3 indigo keyboard on my pc's with a wide variety of OS(win98/2000/xp/Linux/OpenBSD/FreeBSD). Nothing special...
 
After using the Mac keyboard all weekend, and having to switch back to my Microsoft keyboard so I can bring the Mac one back to work, I found the feel for the keyboard to be superior in every way. What I dislike the most is having to stretch some fingers to reach some keys and get irritated with the long, key travel time.
 
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