[TriLUG] Linux at Lowes

[Jon Carnes]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 10:51, Mike Mueller wrote:
> Yesterday at Lowes I was ordering carpet.  The machine used by the customer 
> service rep. have a distinctly non-windows look to it.  Closer inspection 
> revealed an "X" window system.  Even closer inspection of the order entry 
> screen on an application called Genesis revealed an permission error when 
> attempting to write to /usr/local/log/blah.log.  I asked if the system was 
> new - it was.  It was running on an IBM branded platform.  I asked if the 
> system was better or worse than what was used prior to the change - about the 
> same was the answer, the user interface was superior.
> 
> Could Lowes be using Linux at the PoS?  Seems possible.  Anybody on the list 
> know for sure?
> -- 

Yep.  A lot of Point of Sales systems have been moving over to Linux. 
The big migration started about 2 years ago.  Lowes was an early
adopter.