On Thursday, April 25, 2002, at 06:39 PM, Warren Togami wrote:
We could use your HDD-less Linux experience for R Scott Belford's
cashier
conversion from Win98 to Linux too. I hope that they can use read-only
4MB
IDE flash disks on each cashier in place of their hard drives. Less
moving
parts and heat generation, more reliable setup. Each disk will need an
SSH
client and simple LPD client and server.
Yes. Yes. Yes. I was going to respond to MonMotha's first post, but I
am clogging the Mission thread. This is, however, another mission for
the linux community. I work for a retail company with a buttload of
registers. These cash registers use too much hardware to run win98 so
that they can launch a ssh program and connect to a linux box across the
WAN. The linux box serves the POS (point of sale) application. They
are a perfect candidate for a hdd-less install. Warren and Charles have
offered some invaluable insight into this solution. Your work,
MonMotha, could put us much further along. You would be richly rewarded
with praise, recognition, and references. (I have already read ahead
and seen that financial rewards for your project are not your desire)
Scott and Dean, could you please provide details of how your Point of
Sale
system works?
See above for a brief explanation. This subject, my mission to open
source Pricebusters, merits a thread on its own. I will soon take the
time to explain how things are done and how I hope we can change them.
The POS industry is, I think, the most ripe of all to appreciate and
benefit from linux. Every store you walk in to has a need for a
computer to operate as its cash register and data collection center.
Linux can be it. More to come.
----- Original Message -----
From: "MonMotha" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 25, 2002 6:18 PM
Subject: Re: [luau] A Mission For Luau
If you need any help doing HDD-less linux distros, don't hesitate to
ask
me as I've been working on that quite a bit recently. I've got a
complete system with basically every networking tool you could ever
want
(including full ipv6 support) on one barely full floppy disk, and
that's
without tweaking the linking and compiler optimization for size.
You will hear from me. I need some help, and you are doing some great
work. Thanks for the offer. This is rich in possibility.
BTW: I am going to get working on your DMZ support Warren, been busy
recently, but this weekend I have monday off and my LAN party on sat.
fell through, so I might get some time.
--MonMotha
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