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+HAL is a hardware abstraction layer whose goal is to merge information from
+various sources such that desktop applications can locate and use hardware
+devices. The point is that the exact set of information to merge varies by
+device and bus type.
+
+WWW: http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/hal