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Paul Sutton wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Rob Beard wrote: > >> Hi folks, >> >> I went for an eye test today at Spec Savers. I'd read that they were >> moving over to RedHat Enterprise a while back in Linux Format and low >> and behold, they do have it in their eye test rooms. Touch screen and >> bar code reader worked lovely and it even had another screen to replace >> the old boxes with letters, it's now just a nice lovely LCD monitor on >> Linux. :-) >> >> Rob >> >> >> > If we ever get some sort of meet organised that is open to the public > and we are able to do presentations to promote OSS it would be good to > get someone along to give a talk on using linux in their business. I > remember a talk at the school in exeter on moving the met office, so > perhaps something similar for spec savers, > > it would highlight how linux is being used in the real world. > > Paul > > Well as much as that would be good, I doubt anyone at the local Specsavers store would be able to actually do a talk on it, you'd need one of the technical bods really. As far as the staff are concerned by the looks of things, it's just a computer which they use (the app they use is Java based so it would work just as well on Windows and Mac). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html