Hi Michael, Michael Collins wrote: > I have a client that is in bed with this dos based Point of Sale software. > It runs under wine on a server and has 5 Suse machines as the pos > machines. Being dos based it really is time to upgrade. The new software > runs under XP and will run under wine it seems. If not it will run under > Crossover. Crossover has this package called Xover server which uses thin > clients. It seems like LTSP would be a perfect replacement. The client > doesnt like M$ and would rather not have it but the alternative and the > Software Companies preferred solution is to put XP on the five clients. > > I'd rather build a ruby based pos and be done with it but you know how the > real world is. > > I guess the question is, would ltsp do the job? I know that is a stupid > question > > And what are y'alls thoughts on this?
just one quick thought off the cuff before going to bed: aren't there a few open source/Linux POS systems available already? I'm almost sure I've read about it within the last few months. Highly interesting thing in conjunction with LTSP. Other than that, just set it up and try it with Wine/Crossover, is the best way to tell if the existing thing's going to work. BR, Gudmund ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _____________________________________________________________________ Ltsp-discuss mailing list. To un-subscribe, or change prefs, goto: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ltsp-discuss For additional LTSP help, try #ltsp channel on irc.freenode.net
