Just when you thought pizza wasn't an embedded system, along comes this announcement from the GtkPizza project . . .

GtkPizza is a GPL'ed point-of-sale (POS) application that presents an interface for Pizza Bars to take orders over the phone for pizza deliveries. Initially developed in Australia for local Pizza Bars, GtkPizza has since spread around the world, and is sold and supported in a number of countries.

GtkPizza has now made a step forward into the embedded space.

Minor modifications to the code have enabled GtkPizza to run as a full screen application running on diskless mini-ITX boards using the VIA EPIA / VIA C3 processor.

The GtkPizza diskless terminal uses the inbuilt PXE boot capability of the VIA EPIA motherboard to load and boot a minimal linux kernel, and ramdisk including the GtkPizza client software and minimal X windows.

Running without a window manager, 'embedded' GtkPizza runs in fullscreen mode at 800×600 resolution, and uses the postgreSQL service from the main server.

The allows for an interesting range of low cost, high performance diskless mini-Itx client machines to be built and used in pizza bars.

 
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