Red hat faces a talent exodus with linux kernel engineer david howells departing after 18 years, following hans de goede's exit This raises concerns about the company's retention amid ibm integration, layoffs, and policy shifts, potentially impacting linux innovations 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! Following prominent linux x86 platform enabler hans de goede leaving red hat (as recently noted, he recently joined qualcomm), there is another prominent linux kernel engineer that will be departing from red hat. Red hat enterprise linux (rhel) 9.7 is now generally available (ga) This latest release adds many new developer features and updates developer tools to allow developers to focus on building applications.
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