The growing prominence of Linux in China is resulting in an industry event to take place there in February, co-sponsored by the Linux Foundation and Chinese OSS Promotion Union, the foundation announced Monday. The Linux Developer Symposium will be held in Beijing February 19-20. The event will address desktop, server and embedded Linux opportunities, the foundation said. Speakers include Andrew Morton, Linux kernel maintainer; Coly Li, Novell file system maintainer and Matt Mackall, embedded expert and kernel developer. Also scheduled to appear is Jim Zemlin, foundation executive director. The event is intended to educate and promote collaboration among Linux kernel developers and local developers in the region. Attendees will include local developers and engineers from companies such as Google, IBM, Intel, Motorola, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat and Sun Microsystems. The Chinese government is requiring use of China-produced software in government agencies, the foundation said. National government agencies using Linux include the National Ministry of Science, Ministry of Information Industry, Ministry of Education, Ministry of Statistics and the National Labor Unit, China Post, according to the foundation. The local government in Beijing also uses it on 2,000 Linux desktops, the foundation said. Additionally, 140,000 Linux PCs are to be used in schools in the Jiangsu province, said the foundation. Technology Industry