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 <glaw...@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 > > > > > > -- > Greg Lawson > Network Administrator > Rolling Hills Consolidated Library > 1912 N. Belt Highway > St. Joseph, MO 64506 > 816-232-5479 x2303 > _______________________________________________ > Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org > Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz > http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha > -- Chad Roseburg Automation Dept. North Central Regional Library _______________________________________________ Koha mailing list http://koha-community.org Koha@lists.katipo.co.nz http://lists.katipo.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/koha
