I would certainly be interested in giving it a test run if you could post it somewhere. Greg ------------------------------- On 09/25/2013 02:59 PM, Chad Roseburg wrote:
I use remastersys, much like the Live Koha DVD to deploy and image selfchecks. I could make this available as a downloadable iso if anyone was interested trying it out. It would require some site specific changes of course. I have quite a bit of documentation for it, but it is missing a beginner's setup guide for making the site specific changes currently.
It is designed for touchscreens and receipt printing out of the box using Epson T88IV or T88V printers. A Star TSP would work with some post-install drivers.
We have 2 in our branches that do over 1300 and 2300 transactions each month. I have not updated them for Wheezy yet.
Chad
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 10:12 AM, glaws <glawson@rhcl.org <mailto:glawson@rhcl.org>> wrote:
We do also try to remember that not everybody can do a configure, make, make install, to install software. Some small libraries without tech support staff simply would be unable to use some software if it weren't on a CD or easily downloadable. For these sites I think it makes good sense to just master a Linux .iso that can be installed and "just work". If library staff have to install Linux anyway, then a pre-configured "Library Kiosk" or "Self-checkout" distro is probably simpler than creating packages, again, for those users who need to minimize their exposure to synaptic or apt-get.
Greg ---------------------------------------------
On 09/25/2013 10:45 AM, glaws wrote: > I'm not aware there currently exists an open source self-checkout > system, however we've long talked about it here at our library. I work > with a developer, Aaron Ogle, that is currently building a PAC system, > and when he is finished with that if we have the funds available I would > like to consider funding a self-checkout development. Having already > discussed it, we think it wouldn't be terribly difficult. Aaron already > has a generalized framework for similar systems (a children's > playstation and a Koha kiosk) that could be easily adapted to a checkout. > > I should note probably that all the development we support is for open > operating systems, and all the funding we've done so far generally uses > Linux Mint at the client end. The server side, where utilized, is more > generalized, but we typically use Ubuntu and OpenSuse. > > Unfortunately it seems that you need a system now, and anything we do > won't be worked on until at least mid- late-2014. This is, however, a > good discussion topic and worth continuing. > > Greg > >
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