IBM Joins Linux-Intel Development Project

IBM Corp. has joined a group of companies that are developing a version of the Linux operating system to run on Intel Corp.’s next-generation chip design, bolstering a major commercial effort to advance an emerging rival to Microsoft software. IBM is the latest to join the Trillian project, announced a few months ago.

The move will team IBM with two of its rivals--Hewlett-Packard Co. and SGI--as well as VA Linux Systems Inc., a developer of computers running Linux, and Cygnus Solutions, a developer of software tools for Linux and other systems.