[nflug] update to POS BIOS

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Mon Dec 17 09:45:43 EST 2007


and that went real far...

Mark Musone wrote:
>
> Heh..that’s also why they got sued from SCO. J
>
> Mark
>
> *From:* nflug-bounces at nflug.org [mailto:nflug-bounces at nflug.org] *On 
> Behalf Of *Brad Bartram
> *Sent:* Monday, December 17, 2007 8:51 AM
> *To:* nflug at nflug.org
> *Subject:* Re: [nflug] update to POS BIOS
>
> There was a big hullaballoo in '99 or 2000 when autozone converted all 
> of their pos terminals and back-end systems to red hat. There are 
> quite a number of bigger companies that use linux for pos and 
> accounting - I agree though that it's relatively odd to see a small 
> business using it in that role. Did you happen to find out what 
> software they were using aside from RH?
>
> Brad
>
> On Dec 17, 2007 8:36 AM, Robert Wolfe <robertwolfe at localnet.com 
> <mailto:robertwolfe at localnet.com>> wrote:
>
> On a lighter side of things, noticed that Key Liquors in the Value Plaza
> has Red Hat-powered POS terminals -- there is a "Powered by Red Hat"
> sticker on both of them :) Thought it was a bit interesting to see POS
> terminals powered by Red Hat or any distro of Linux for that matter.
>
> Enough of my rambling. Have a great, sunny morning everyone!
>
> --
> Robert Wolfe
> Systems Administrator
> LocalNet Corp.
> CoreComm Internet Services
> (517) 664-8924
>
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