PC World: Linux Backers Plan Microsoft Shadow Conference

"Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) this year will get some open-source competition. Linux proponents plan to hold the first-ever FreedomHEC conference for Linux hardware engineers immediately following the Microsoft gathering in late May.

"The first-ever FreedomHEC conference, scheduled to begin in Seattle the day after WinHEC with free admission for WinHEC attendees, will feature informational sessions about how to make a variety of hardware devices run Linux effectively, according to a Web site about the conference..."

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