I'm trying to help a relative establish a small retail cigar store. He is not very well funded. He will need a POS system. Not much, just one cash register, with a bar-code scanner, credit-card scanner, cash drawer, etc. And will also need to tie it into some sort of accounting system.

We went down to CompUSA, and found a fairly decent setup by Intuit. It has everything, except the PC, for $1500. It include Quickbooks POS software etc.

I have seen hardware kits fairly cheap - like $400. But, I don't know if they will work with Linux. I don't want to spend the next few weeks trying to hunt down drivers all over the internet. And I don't want to have to try ten different credit-card scanners before I find one that works.

Is there any sort of package deal, a "kit" for linux? Or any hardware kit that somebody has had good luck with?

This will give you vendors and distro's:

http://www.linux-pos.org/

Here is one that IBM uses:
http://www.novell.com/products/linux.../features.html

Thanks for replying but that is not at all what I am looking for.

I am looking for *HARDWARE* that will run with linux. There is all kinds of linux software to work with POS systems. But where do I get hardware that I know will work?

Here's a devkit.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/products/PD3770250026.html

Here's a working kit.

http://www.linuxdevices.com/articles/AT2874315267.html

google is your friend

Thanks, still not what I'm looking for, but a lot closer.

I was looking for stuff that works with a standard PC running Linux. They have it for PCs running Windows.

For example the quickbooks POS kit: it's has a cash drawer, barcode scanner, credit-card scanner, printer, and quickbooks POS software. I would like to find something like that, which I knew would work with Linux.

Thank again for replying.