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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"."<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]], and [[Power Architecture|Power]], and more recently, the [[Cell Broadband Engine]].

Developers in the LTC contribute to various open-source projects such as:

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.

* KVM on x86 and Power systems, including Kimchi

LTC is a worldwide team spread across 38 locations in the world and contains more than 600 people.

* Big Data and Hadoop

* OpenStack and Cloud Computing

* Data Center networking

* Scalability

* Linux Kernel

* Device Support

* Networking

* Systems Management

* Security

* Performance

* Toolchain

* Open Source Standards

* Open Source Test & Quality

* Virtualization technologies

* OpenPower Consortium

* [[Reliability, Scalability, and Serviceability (computer)|Serviceability]] (including Kdump<ref>http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/</ref> and [[SystemTap]] <ref>http://sourceware.org/systemtap/</ref>)

LTC is a worldwide team with main locations in Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Israel, and the United States.

==References==