[lug] Open Source Linux POS Software

[Quentin Hartman]

Years ago I setup OFBiz (http://ofbiz.apache.org/) for a small business and
it seemed ok. I got them using it, they were happy, and after a couple
months I never heard from them again, so they either were able to just keep
on trucking or they decided they hated me.

Out of curiosity, why not use one of the tablet-based POS systems from
Square and others? Those seem to work well, and licensing isn't really an
issue since they are using them essentially as SASS to drive people into
their CC auth service.

Q

On Fri, Jan 20, 2017 at 1:53 PM, Jonathan Eidsness <
jonathan.eidsness at gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd suggest Odoo (odoo.com). I've mainly looked at it as an ERP program.
> The POS component looks pretty slick, though I've not used it.
>
> On Jan 20, 2017 1:26 PM, "Davide Del Vento" <davide.del.vento at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> I don't really have a good answer, but since nobody answered (yet?) mine
> will be better than nothing.
>
> Last time I checked MySQL was GPL, which is fine for everything you want
> to do as long as you don't change its source code and give it to others
> (which I'm 99% sure you will not do), so I would not rule that out. Also,
> it seems to still be the most popular DB, which will limit you a lot if you
> avoid it. I personally like PostgreSQL more, though.
>
> In my opinion PHP is not worse than other languages in making code not
> secure. However I do not like it. And many people who use it tend to not be
> strong on security and robustness, which you seem to care about. I'm sure
> you can find not-robust and not-secure software written in java, python, bf
> or your favorite language, so again, I would not rule PHP out just because
> it's PHP. Look at what you find. IIRC, wikipedia is built in PHP, and it's
> certainly a pretty scalable, robust and at least decently secure website.
>
> I have not set a POS in either Linux or other OS.
>
> On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 3:23 PM, <stimits at comcast.net> wrote:
>
>> 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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