A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)
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A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)
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#3Does anyone know what happened to Jeremy Chatfield (mentioned in the article)? He disappeared off the face of the earth around 2014, and I assumed may have passed away but I've not been able to find out.
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#4> The business rationale for Dell UNIX was to sell Dell hardware. But the majority of the copies of Dell UNIX ended up running on other vendors’ machines.
I wonder if Microsoft threatened Dell with price hikes (or offered price decreases) for their software if they didn't push Dell Unix
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#5Does anyone know what happened to Jeremy Chatfield (mentioned in the article)? He disappeared off the face of the earth around 2014, and I assumed may have passed away but I've not been able to find out.
Quite plausible. Dell still sells lots of Linux machines which come with a slightly customized Ubuntu, but support is not very good.
My employer bought me a $20k workstation a few years back. Hardware was 100% mainstream x86_64. It was expensive simply because it had a massive amount of ECC RAM and a big Xeon CPU. Anyway, it was pretty shocking to discover that the machine bootlooped straight out of the box.
Easy to fix, just boot from a live USB and install another Linux distribution, which I was planning to do anyway, but quite disappointing for an expensive product from a manufacturer that supposedly supports Linux and sells tons of servers. Hopefully, as Microsoft looses some leverage, we can get good Linux support from other manufacturers.
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#6Does anyone know what happened to Jeremy Chatfield (mentioned in the article)? He disappeared off the face of the earth around 2014, and I assumed may have passed away but I've not been able to find out.
Man you weren't kidding. EVERYTHING stops in 2014. And I've dug through London and UK death records etc. can't find anything.
Everything is 2014 or earlier
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#7Dells run freebsd just fine. I've managed probably 25 years of rackmount Dell by preference. Not that I don't hate iDrac and how they wantonly reprogram the SAS hba.
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#8Does anyone know what happened to Jeremy Chatfield (mentioned in the article)? He disappeared off the face of the earth around 2014, and I assumed may have passed away but I've not been able to find out.
Quite plausible. Dell still sells lots of Linux machines which come with a slightly customized Ubuntu, but support is not very good. My employer bought me a $20k workstation a few years back. Hardware was 100% mainstream x86_64. It was expensive simply because it had a massive amount of ECC RAM and a big Xeon CPU. Anyway, it was pretty shocking to discover that the machine bootlooped straight out of the box. Easy to…
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#9Does anyone know what happened to Jeremy Chatfield (mentioned in the article)? He disappeared off the face of the earth around 2014, and I assumed may have passed away but I've not been able to find out.
I didn’t know Chatfield, but I knew Ron McDowell (also mentioned).
Ron passed away in 2012. The last thing he worked on was FreeBSD’s bsdconfig(8).
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#10Does anyone know what happened to Jeremy Chatfield (mentioned in the article)? He disappeared off the face of the earth around 2014, and I assumed may have passed away but I've not been able to find out.
I find people, though mostly US people, and yeah, his online activity drops off in late Nov 2014. You can easily find several of his presences, including on HN, under the handle jezchatfield.
For whatever reason, he reminds me of edw519, who used to be quite well-known around these parts.
I reached out to Jeremy's family members and linked to this thread. Will update if I hear back.