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posted by Editor on Monday September 17, @11:22PM
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This page on Jamie Zawinski’s web site talks about his efforts to develop a Point-of-Sale (POS) system on Linux for the DNA Lounge, a nightclub he started after leaving the Mozilla project in 1999. When he discovered that good cash registers cost as much as $2,200, he checked out LinuxPOS, one of the leading commercially-developed POS packages for Linux, but found that it wasn’t suitable for restaurant use. The package was designed for much larger inventories than restaurants usually offer, and didn’t have a way to put up a grid of products that is normally used in a bar or fast-food restaurant, where there are less than a dozen products and you just want to be able to push a button labelled "hamburger" or "beer, imported." So, being a good coder, he whipped up a prototype from scratch, in the hopes of keeping the hardware unit cost per register down around $800.
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