IBM 4800-C41 - About this Guide; How this Guide Is Organized; Publications Accessibility; Where to Find more Information

About this guide
This guide provides necessary information to configure the Linux
®
operating system (OS) environments
on supported IBM
®
Point of Sale hardware devices. It includes procedures to configure these system units
and displays, along with associated input devices:
v IBM 4694-207/247/307/347
v IBM 4820-1xx/2xx/4xx/5xx SurePoint
™
Solution
v IBM AnyPlace
TM
Kiosk 4836 and 4838-x3x/3xx/5xx/7xx/9xx
v IBM SurePOS
™
100 4613-1x8
v IBM SurePOS 300 4810-32x/33x/34x
v IBM SurePOS 500 4846-5xx, 4851/4951
v IBM SurePOS 700 4800-72x/74x/78x
Publications accessibility
The softcopy version of this guide and other related publications are accessibility enabled.
Who should use this guide
This guide is intended for systems integrators or administrators who are responsible for installing and
configuring supported Linux operating systems on IBM Point of Sale hardware devices. It is not intended
to provide general or comprehensive configuration information for the OSs that are covered in this guide.
How this guide is organized
This guide contains these chapters:
v Chapter 1, “Common configuration procedures,” on page 1, which presents configuration procedures
that are common to all Linux environments, for supported IBM Point of Sale hardware devices. If
applicable, perform these procedures before proceeding to the OS-specific parts of this guide.
v Chapter 2, “SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 procedures,” on page 11, which presents configuration
procedures that are specific to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 11 (SLED 11) operating system, for
specific IBM Point of Sale hardware devices.
v Chapter 3, “SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 procedures,” on page 15, which presents
configuration procedures that are specific to the SUSE Linux Enterprise Point of Service 11 (SLEPOS 11)
operating system, for supported IBM Point of Sale hardware devices.
In addition, there are Appendices that address safety, legal, and trademark information.
Where to find more information
Publications
Familiarity with these publications is assumed before you proceed with the configuration procedures in
this guide:
v IBM Remote Management Agent User’s Guide, GC30-4106
v IBM Point of Sale Subsystem UnifiedPOS User’s Guide, Keyboards, and Code Pages, GC30-4078
v Java for Retail POS Programming Guide
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