Open source point of sales app

[Bryan Richard]

What seems like ages ago, I did a L'ânePOS
(http://l-ane.sourceforge.net/) installation (custom receipt printing,
CC swipe, hacked in multiple networked registers) that went quite well
until IBM swooped in and replaced everything.

This was a straight retail install but the interface looks like
something you would see in a restaurant. 

There are some non-free POS systems out there that Open Source and are
more establishd but require licensing. Is Free Software a requirement?

You might also want to search the POS category on SF
(http://sourceforge.net/softwaremap/trove_list.php?form_cat=79). 

Linux Mag just did a feature on retail
(http://www.linux-mag.com/2003-08/retail_01.html) but I haven't gotten
around to reading it.

- Bryan

On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 03:44:14PM -0600, Becker, Rob wrote:
> Does anyone out there have experience with any open source point of
> sales applications?  I'm helping my parents with the technical side of
> opening a restaurant and I am trying to find a good POS app for them.  I
> would prefer it be open source or at least able to run on Linux.  It
> would be very helpful if it could be easily integrated with Quickbooks.
> Does anyone out there have any experience with this kind of endeavor?
> Any links, advice, hints, tips to offer?  All help greatly appreciated.
> Thanks.
> Rob
> 
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