[luau] Linux POS/Cash Register Terminal Image

[R. Scott Belford]

On Monday, May 27, 2002, at 06:26 PM, MonMotha wrote:

> I've quoted my earlier post, but I'm making progress on this image.  My 
> target so far has been a 16MB image, but I can go lower (or higher). 
> Some of these questions were fairly well answered by Warren, but I'm 
> curious if there is any other commentary regarding them (or even any 
> interest)?
>
> I also have a few additional questions:
>
> 1) Will any client side authentication be desired?  If so, what should 
> the client authenticate against?

Not sure.

>
> 2) Never any answer on how they are networked (it doesn't even have to 
> be ethernet, I could do a serial console thing too, but then you might 
> as well buy Wyse terminals...)

My bad.  The registers use ethernet to access the server.  There is a 
slew of different nics in the boxes right now.  I may just replace all 
these with the same type to keep it simple.

>
> 3) Basic utils once again?

Not sure

>
>
> Any other suggestions are of course appreceiated.

I know they will come.  Many, many thanks.

scott