Circuit City Migrating to Linux

5m477m4n writes "Circuit City is planing to have much of its day to day operations on Linux by 2006. Unfortunately that doesn't mean we'll be able to by a Linux PC there. IBM equipment and software, along with SUSE Linux will be used."

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Re:Employee Replacement?

[violent.ed]

as i currently read this post from the POS (point of sale? Peice of Shiat?) terminal which currently runs a shoddy winxp-embedded, i can tell you that there are no snot-nosed 16 year olds (at least not in my store.) and we generally do not stop customers exiting the doors to look at receipts unless the door alarm goes off, even if then :P

i will probably comment on alot of these posts seeing as how i have seen the open wed kiosks move from some version of linux that used Netscape/Mozilla over to xp-embedded... which probably came to be because the IDIOts who set up the linux boxes never turned off the hard-drive saving of bookmarks (if thats even do-able), which resulted in numerous error messages accumulating over the course of a day.