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The [[IBM]] Linux Technology Center (LTC) is an organization focused on development for the [[Linux]] kernel and related [[open-source software]] projects. In 1999, IBM created the LTC to combine its software developers interested in Linux and other open-source software into a single organization. Much of the LTC's early effort was focused on making "all of its server platforms Linux friendly"[http://linuxgazette.net/issue59/correa2.html]. The LTC collaborated with the Linux community to make Linux run optimally on processor architectures such as [[x86]], [[mainframe]], [[Power]], and more recently, the [[Cell Broadband Engine]].

Developers in the LTC contribute to various open-source projects such as [[Realtime]], [[Serviceability (computer)|Serviceability]] (including Kdump[http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/] and [[Systemtap|SystemTap]] [http://sourceware.org/systemtap/]), [[Enterprise Volume Management System]] (EVMS), [[Virtualization]] (using the [[Xen]] [[hypervisor]]), [[Linux Test Project]] (LTP), [[Linux Standard Base]] (LSB) as well as projects focused on enabling Linux to use new hardware functions on IBM platforms.