Hope the eyesight is OK Nick... Yes it's all around us. Noel Leeming stores have a locked-down terminal with a web browser that look a but like Firefox, running on top of some Linux distro.
- David On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 9:08 AM, Nick Rout <[email protected]> wrote: > I went into specsavers the other day to get a copy of an invoice for > my insurance company. Sat down at computer with assistant and she went > through several screens, it soon became apparent that she was not > using windows. > > Invoice info etc was all via a browser (firefox) and invoice came up > in openoffice writer so she could print it. While she was off at the > printer I clicked an icon that said "my computer" or suchlike. The > file system was definitely *nix, it had var opt and dev directories (I > couldn't linger as the printer wasn't far away.) > > She knew nothing about what was underlying the software she used. It > may have been any unix variant, but it was great to see something that > wasn't windows! >
