I was given the task a few weeks ago of finding point of sale software for our clinic. I started by looking at all the open source options. Two likely candidates were PHP Point of Sale and Lemon POS. Since this point of sale would be put on either a stand-alone system or be placed on a server I decided I would set up a system for testing.  I’ve been using Linux for the last 5 years or so but I’m more of a distro and windowing user. That’s why I like Ubuntu so much. It just works out of the box.  I don’t have to compile code to get an application working.
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