On Saturday 20 January 2024 07:56:16 pm gene heskett wrote: > We may even already > have a POS system you could use. I know for a fact one of the local > grocery stores here in this village of around 6000 is running something > on linux in the checkout lanes, I saw it boot up after a power failure > before the actual app was auto-started. What that app was, no one had > been instructed as it was totally auto starting. Typical of the > checkout lanes I suspect.
Without naming the rather large company involved, I had some similar experience -- I ran a service call to do some updates on one of those checkout lane systems, and they were running a customized version of RH7! I was instructed to bring a keyboard and a monitor because the POS screen and keyboard wouldn't show all that needed to be seen or to key in the necessary stuff... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin
