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.
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.
Ron passed away in 2012. The last thing he worked on was FreeBSD’s bsdconfig(8).
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.
Everything is 2014 or earlier