Hello, I am going to be building a few systems for a small retail book store in Raleigh.
They are looking to have a main POS system with a cash drawer, receipt printer, normal/inkjet/laser printer, credit card swipey thingy, and barcode scanner. This system should record all transactions on the main server that I will be building, preferably over NFS. Every thing needs to obviously be Linux based, so I'm looking for any existing POS software solutions that run under Linux. I'd be open to nice ncurses interfaces or something atop X -- X, GTK, QT -- don't care. The software should work with all the necessary devices. The thermal receipt printer (IBM SureMark 4160) works over serial ... I can "echo 'Test' > /dev/ttyS0" and it prints, so that should be easy. It also has a check reader/impact printer for filling out checks, but I'm not sure how this works. I haven't been able to print to that. (If anyone knows -- I'd love some help here too!). I presume the barcode scanner is just PS/2, so that shouldn't be an issue. Anywhoo -- if anyone knows of any software, or wants to comment on similar setups, I would greatly appreciate the help/advice. Thanks! --Aaron -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
