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Notes on Scientific Linux

Scientific Linux (SL) is a Linux distribution based on RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). There are other distributions derived from RHEL, the probably most prominent one is CentOS. I guess most of what is written here applies to any Linux distribution derived from RHEL.

Changing the keyboard layout

• Use loadkeys on the console like this: loadkeys de-latin1-nodeadkeys (the file loaded is /lib/kbd/keymaps/i386/qwertz/de-latin1-nodeadkeys.map.gz)
• List all available keyboard layouts: find /lib/kbd/keymaps/ | sort | less
• The keymap loaded during system initialization is defined in file /etc/sysconfig/keyboard (entry KEYTABLE)
• You can also use the GUI system-config-keyboard, if X is available.