[HN Gopher] A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)
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       A brief history of Dell Unix (2008)
        
       Author : fanf2
       Score  : 62 points
       Date   : 2024-07-21 14:42 UTC (8 hours ago)
        
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       | rwmj wrote:
       | Does 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.
        
         | nextos wrote:
         | 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.
        
       | bluedino wrote:
       | > 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
        
       | ggm wrote:
       | Dells 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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