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"[.<ref>http://linuxgazette.net/issue59/correa2.html].</ref> The LTC collaborated with the Linux community to make Linux run optimally on processor architectures such as [[x86]], [[Mainframe computer|mainframe]], [[Power Architecture|Power]], and more recently, the [[Cell Broadband Engine]].
Developers in the LTC contribute to various open-source projects such as [[Real-time computing|Realtime]], [[Serviceability (computer)|Serviceability]] (including Kdump [<ref>http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/]</ref> and [[SystemTap]] [<ref>http://sourceware.org/systemtap/]</ref>), [[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.
LTC is a worldwide team spread across 38 locations in the world and contains more than 600 people.
