online article: world's first open-source Point Of Sale system uses Ubuntu

[Daniel Robitaille]

"World's first open-source Point Of Sale system tested at People's Food Co-op"
http://www.indymedia.org/fr/2005/08/118450.shtml


According to the article, the first open-sourced Point-of-Sale system (that's the
software in a cash register in a store) running on a non-windows system was
tested last weekend in Portland Oregon.

That was done on a Ubuntu computer using MySQL 5 and PHP 5.