[TriLUG] Linux at Lowes

[Roberto J. Dohnert]

SuSE Linux with a customized version of FVWM2 to be exact.  I know the 
IS director for Lowes, I graduated from college with him.

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.
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>Could Lowes be using Linux at the PoS?  Seems possible.  Anybody on the list 
>know for sure?
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