[Discuss] Linux distro for cash register

[stephen hawkes]

pw wrote:
> stephen hawkes wrote:
>> And to make sure you only have to install it once copy a drive image 
>> to a spare drive (4GB drives are nearly free now and should be large 
>> enough). Then if a HD fails you can just dupe the image to another 
>> drive, or if you need another system setup you just need to copy that 
>> image. Linux deals quite well with hardware changes (unlike windows). 
>> I've taken a drive with a linux install and placed it in a computer 
>> with different board chipset and a different vid card and it worked 
>> fine. Windows blows up on major hardware changes.
>
>
> Use RAID to mirror the drive at the getgo.
> That way you have a reasonable backup for
> your business.
>
> ie: extra 100GB drive costs miniscule dollars compared to downtime and 
> business losses incurred by drive failure.
>
> Peter
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I agree with raid (softraid is easy enough in linux), and new drives are 
cheap but 100GB is overkill for a terminal client. What about flash 
drives? No moving parts, they don't have the limited write issues they 
originally had, low heat, compact.