[lug] Open Source Linux POS Software

stimits at comcast.net stimits at comcast.net
Thu Jan 19 15:23:04 MST 2017


Hi,
 
I'm looking at helping a friend set up at least a back end Point-of-Sales (POS) software in a service and retail oriented shop on Linux. I'm hoping to avoid some of the commercial licensing dramas going on these days.
 
I definitely don't like what I see related to commercial licensing and use of MySQL, and I have had very pleasant experience with using PostgreSQL (especially since this may go into distributed database services), so this is high on the list. Maybe I'm wrong, but so far I'm summarily dismissing anything requiring MySQL.
 
I don't mind Java as a language, I like working with it, but it seems recently news has shown there may be some licensing drama there too (though this would depend on the Java support packages instead of the end Java programs using those packages)...does anyone here have any comments on whether Java licensing is a risk for people using software running under Java on Linux? I'm especially interested for cases where the regular Fedora/CentOS repositories have the Java support software...there is no chance of using something requiring a special install.
 
It seems that most of what is out there is either Java or PHP, and as easy as PHP is to work with, the web-based PHP solutions seem too high risk...how much should PHP be trusted these days with security? Has this changed?
 
Does anyone here have any experiences to share with setting up open source POS software under Linux?
 
Thanks!
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