Also look at http://www.businesssolutionsmag.com it is a magazine for VAR's and they frequently have POS solutions and articles. They have a solution finder form, that you may get a hit on if you fill it out.
You may also find info at http://processor.com They have an electronic version of their mag. They have ton's of advertisers, although I didn't specifically see anything in the last issue on POS, but didn't check their website either Matt On Wed, March 23, 2005 9:25 am, Greg Brown said: > I'm totally buried with my current projects so I apologize half-answer > but somewhere on the Apple.com website there is a company that apple > profiled who used iMacs for POS.. if memory serves the same company > that produced the Mac software produced Linux software as well. > > Also, in the latest copy of Linux Journal there was an add for small > thermal printers that now have Linux drivers - the little printers > that > are ideal for credit card slips. > > Hope this helps. > > Greg > > On Mar 21, 2005, at 3:54 PM, Aaron Bockover wrote: > >> 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 >> > > -- > 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 > -- 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
