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 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. 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!
It's been a few months since the controversial news that is ibm/redhat putting restrictions hindering others and losing faith of many There were many threats of leaving el all together and companies moving to debian, or a debian based distro. Red hat used its appearance at kubecon + cloudnativecon americas 2025 to detail the general availability of red hat enterprise linux 10.1 and 9.7, which the company says builds on the innovations.
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