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Free Software for Cybercafe Management?

Posted by Cliff on from the serving-up-coffee-chips-dips-and-html dept.

SantiagoRoza asks: "Hello, Slashdot. I am asking for your collaboration because someone I know needs a software to manage his (small) Internet cafe. Ideally, we're looking for software that is free/libre and multilingual (with a Spanish version), but I'd gladly take free/gratis and English-only. Additionally, the software has to work on Windows. After searching the 'net, I've only been able to find CafeTimer, which doesn't impress me. Nothing else out there looks like it will support more than 2-3 computers. Might you all have other suggestions?"

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  1. Windows??? and Linux too... :) by advocate_one · · Score: 5, Informative

    CybOrg, the Cybercafe Organizer and it's Spanish/English to boot!!! what more can you ask for???

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    Donald 'Duck' Dunn: We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline.
  2. You gotta be kidding... by Korgan · · Score: 2, Informative

    Couldn't find anything? Didn't try very hard. :|

    One search alone generates quite a few apps that fit into your stated requirements. I'm sure if I tried I could find you a lot more.

    http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=cafe&section=projec ts&Go.x=5&Go.y=14

  3. Openkiosk works w/both Lin and Win. by geohump · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://openkiosk.sourceforge.net/ This package may do what you want. It has clients for both Windows and Linux boxes. I believe that it may need a Linux server to control things, but I'm not sure.

  4. Re:SCO licensing by endx7 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Does tux racer run on BSD?

    ..Actually, it does. (Well, I know for FreeBSD at least)

    Me, I like the golf theme for it.

  5. WTF does that have to do with it? by leonbrooks · · Score: 3, Informative
    I whomped up a Linux-based cafe system called lincaf, going to be uploaded somewhere public soon (weeks) and it's GPLed.
    • While we were testing it, two girls who had never seen Linux before trotted up, sat down, and edited up their CVs, one on OpenOffice Writer and one on KWord, and they never noticed that it wasn't MS-Word they were using. They were especially happy to be able to turn their CVs into PDF on the spot.
    • While some sites require MSIE (and we don't provide it), one customer was delighted to report that while his bank rarely worked for him using MSIE at another establishment related to the one using lincaf, it worked every time using FireFox and telling it to lie about who it was.
    • Another random customer who deals with GIS was absolutely floored that we were able to provide GRASS for him in a matter of seconds. No, hah, hah, not that kind of grass, got it off your chest now?

      He added GRASS-on-Linux to his resume and got a job the next day (with a firm that, oddly enough, doesn't use Linux).

    This Linux system, despite being highly prototypical, is already far easier to maintain than the comparable MS-Windows systems at peer establishments, which regularly break, and regularly hand out free time despite being heavily locked down and Sherrif carded.
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