NewsForge: Community Converges on Ohio LinuxFest

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"Trade shows such as LinuxWorld Conference & Expo (LWCE) are all about business, and pay very little attention to the community aspect of Linux. Ohio LinuxFest, by contrast, is put on entirely by a loosely knit team of volunteer organizers, with help from sponsors to fund the event. If last Saturday's event was any indication, the community is not only alive and well, it's thriving. More than 700 people attended this third annual event in Columbus.

"The LinuxFest opened with a quick address from organizer Greg Boehnlein, then a keynote from Chris Hicks, IBM Americas Linux on Power Executive. Hicks's keynote, 'Architecture choices and decision points,' touched on the types of loads Linux can handle, and focused (not surprisingly) on Linux running on IBM's Power architecture..."

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