Another highly influential linux kernel engineer, david hildenbrand, is leaving red hat after a decade of major contributions to memory management, virtualization, and virtio His recent kernel patch updates his maintainer info to a kernel.org address, signaling his departure He hasn't yet said whe. An x post from kubernetes with naveen on november 18, 2025, reiterated phoronix’s report, highlighting howells as a prominent kernel engineer Just this year alone so far in 2025 he's authored or been mentioned on more than one thousand mainline linux kernel patches wow this guy is awesome! In the past few months at intel between layoffs / corporate reorganizations and some deciding to pursue job opportunities elsewhere, there have been unfortunate impacts to their linux engineering resources
Intel over the summer lost some prominent linux engi… The departure will cause headaches for linux graphics support on apple silicon Alongside alyssa rosenzweig, asahi lina had been one of the most prominent developers working on the apple linux gpu graphics stack When martin resigned from the project, a list of seven contributors was compiled to manage the project going forward.
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