André Almeida | Igalia - Open Source Consultancy and Development

André Almeida

André Almeida (he/him)

Kernel hacker.

São Paulo (Brazil)

Free software activist and developer, really enjoys teaching programming and playing music.

POSTS

May 26, 2025

Linux 6.15, DRM scheduler, wedged events, sched_ext and more

The Linux 6.15 has just been released, bringing a lot of new features: nova-core, the “base” driver for the new NVIDIA GPU driver, written in Rust. nova project will eventually...

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Mar 28, 2025

Linux 6.14, an almost forgotten release

Linux 6.14 is the second release of 2025, and as usual Igalia took part on it. It’s a very normal release, except that it was release on Monday, instead of...

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Jan 20, 2025

Linux 6.13, I WANT A GUITAR PEDAL

Just as 2025 is starting, we got a new Linux release in mid January, tagged as 6.13. In the spirit of holidays, Linus Torvalds even announced during 6.13-rc6 that he...

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Media

Case insensitive filesystems on Linux

Case insensitive filesystems on Linux

Nov 21, 2025

Dealing with GPU resets

Dealing with GPU resets

Nov 4, 2024

Async page flip in atomic API

Async page flip in atomic API

Apr 25, 2024