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WinREST is now LinREST?

Through “O Correio dos Outros” run by Pedro Aniceto I heard that the WinREST, an appliance for managing restaurants and related will now be running over Linux instead of Windows. The big thing here is that these appliances have quite a decent touch screen and UI and show that even fancy hardware (touch screens) can be used with Linux. Besides, what’s the friggin’ point of using Windows in these machines? Paying $50 extra for each machine?

This would be a great thing.

Does anyone confirm this?


6 Responses to “WinREST is now LinREST?”

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  1. Mind Booster Noori
    Published at August 2nd, 2007 at 6:58 pm

    I think you’re looking for this.

  2. vd
    Published at August 2nd, 2007 at 7:02 pm

    Yeap, a couple of years ago, on the portuguese Java on Demand event, they announced that they’ve ported the application to Java. But at the time the only thing in Linux was their client, because the server needed something from MSFT (file system & database, I guess).

    Now is full linux: http://www.consulpixel.pt/Produtos/Page10384/page10384.html

  3. mlopes
    Published at August 2nd, 2007 at 7:05 pm

    That’s really cool!

  4. Marco
    Published at August 2nd, 2007 at 7:56 pm

    3 year ago I saw the instalation of one post, and the linux distro was Debian.

  5. criticalerror
    Published at August 2nd, 2007 at 8:16 pm

    GrupoPIE develop winrest to linux plataforms, and work 5 * what else you should expect of an aplication running linux.

    One important note is that you can have on a pen drive everyting you need (format and install, intall GrupoPIE applications, upgrade kernel, etc etc)

  6. Eduardo
    Published at August 3rd, 2007 at 12:26 pm

    Hi Mário,

    I have a Pastry Shop whit three TouchScreens runnin WinRest on Linux. When I decided that I wanted WinRest at my shop, they presented to me two solutions, one running in Linux and another one running in windows (the most expensive solution, since you have to pay a winrest license and a window license per machine).

    I am very satisfied with my choice and as criticalerror said you can have on a pen drive everything you need.