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Australia, China and Snowboard Shops Use Linux
Miscellaneous stories about Linux usage today: the Australian government has allowed (but not required) its agencies to switch to Linux. China is apparently going to go all-Linux for the 2008 Olympic games in Beijing. And business2.com has a story about chain of snowboarding shops (and other businesses) deploying Linux cash registers and desktops.
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Main page here.
You saw it here
http://linux.gen.nz/supply.html
There's a list of companies that supply Linux preloaded on new machines. No dual boot, just pure Linux.
Yesterday I saw on TV that the Finnish parliament is upgrading its computers to Windows XP and training was to commence soon as well.Wasn't very specific but I guess it meant the desktop machines.
// ville
In any case someone is interested in Finnish parliament: http://www.eduskunta.fi/efakta/index01.htm couldn't see anything regarding Windows XP upgrade though.
The problem is solved.
The Donato Food Group in Toronto will take its 26th restaurant (Mrs. Vanelli's) live today in Downtown Toronto at Scotia Plaza on King Street West. It will be a 3 display X Windows POS system from ViewTouch, a company which has been in business doing graphic touchscreen POS since 1986, a time when there were no graphic capabilities in DOS computers. That might even mean that the company that first began doing graphic touchscreen POS is still at it and is using free software instead of Windows. By the way, one of the displays will be an interactive Kitchen Video display. Everybody else's kitchen video displays are not interactive except for the ability to use a bump bar to move from one guest check to another. The company has an IT department with one employee. He is also responsible for all the POS installations, from Montreal to British Columbia and, in a few months, from Arabia to New Zealand. He knows a little bit about enterprise POS and remote management, don't you think? I think that he would think that you would be better off laughing at something that was funny instead of laughing at something that you made up that has no truth to it. If you were to ask the IT department manager at Donato Food Group you would find that X never crashes, and neither does the FreeBSD (and sometimes Linux) operating system used in the POS system. By the way, there's no gnome or KDE environment, either. The window manager in the POS system is fully graphical, but it is also fully specific to the job at hand - POS. Since you're in Canada maybe you would find yourself eating at a Mrs. Vanelli or a Made In Japan restaurant in one of the malls. They will take your order on an X Windows POS system and the company's head office will have the transaction immediately rsync'ed to itself. And if they add a new menu item to the software from the head office, even as the cashier is taking your order, don't be surprised. That's the kind of thing that you can do with X when it's used properly, and it's the kind of thing that has been going on for many, many years.
You badly need a reality check. Do you have enough initiative to give yourself one?
The issue has been resolved by RedHat. You can read the bugzilla link here.
Basically, RedHat has agreed to remove all flags in the next update of kdebase.
Regards,
Spock_NPA
I've been actively researching this for quite some time now. I've come up with a few:
L'AnePOS - written in Perl, uses Tcl/TK for admin, PostgreSQL backend. Nice system, but the code needs cleanup. The project admin told me he should be updating it very soon.
Compiere - Whole ERP/CRM package including POS. Too big for small shops, just right for medium. Oracle backend, tho - expect to pay a bit for that.
BananaPOS - Not sure, development seems erratic.
There's JPos as well, though I'm not sure what backend it uses and Mercator, which is still in Alpha. I'm trying to get a project called Poszilla off the ground, too - Point of Sale based on Mozilla, which would truly be be platform independant, maybe even DB independant.
GPLed Point of Sale is getting there, I guess.
Soko
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