While it is not the best for public education, this is actually a very good anicdote(sp?) for business. It shows you can use Linux in a mission critical situation and it causes no difficulty to the employee using it. It is transparent.
Although, I am not surprised that it is transparent in a cash register application. Many POS systems use non-MS operating systems and the cashiers don't care.
Alan
-------Original Message-------
From: Kevin Geiss <
kevin@desertsol.com>
Sent: 02/21/03 07:11 PM
To:
plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
Subject: burlington coat factory
>
> just went to burlington coat factory, a fairly new store on power road
out in mesa. I had read that all new stores would use linux based cash
registers. sure enough, fvwm95 was on the screen (that wm designed
to look like win95 with the little redhat icon on the start menu)
I commented on it, and the cashier lady said ``what's linux?''
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