Hi Patrik,
We are insist to make opensuse as the priority of its platform. And we need to
buy the machine as the development environment. They are:
1. PC Desktop;
2. Barcode reader;
3. Cash Drawer;
4. Credit card reader.
If the programming language is Java, there is JavaPOS - which is
platform independent and almost all device providers have JavaPOS
drivers these days. These drivers support enable/disable etc. so instead
of using wedge-device settings for the readers you can actually control
them properly.
For the credit card, you're on your own. Most of these talk quite
specific APIs but there is an open cash point solution from some guy in
Venezuela but the name escapes my memory at the moment.
For disclosure, I work for a software company specialising on writing
POS software. We use JavaPOS (obviously) and Linux (IRES or NLPOS) or
WEPOS (or embedded XP or Win2k before that).
IBM has excellent POS machines with SuSE and JavaPOS support. They also
have an integrated till build environment called IRES (which uses
SLES9/NLDesktop 9)(IRES stands for IBM Retail Environment for SuSE).
For OpenSUSE, I'm not sure if any hardware vendor would be ready to
support it. Unfortunately they only see SLES/RHEL as viable distributions.
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