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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 pas

by rwmj 2y ago

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 2y ago
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.
- zdimension 2y ago
  I think you might have replied to the wrong comment
  - nextos 2y ago
    Yes it was a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027805
helf 2y ago
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 https://mightyframe.blogspot.com/p/history.html?m=1 https://mightyframe.blogspot.com/p/history.html?m=1
gonzo 2y ago
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).
runjake 2y ago
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.
shrubble 2y ago
I know he had started an SEO business at some point, but lost track of him over the years. I worked with him at Xi Graphics in the 1990s; I credit Jeremy with helping me a great deal in learning and really understanding "the Unix way".

by rwmj 2y ago

nextos 2y ago

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.

zdimension 2y ago
I think you might have replied to the wrong comment
- nextos 2y ago
  Yes it was a reply to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027805 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41027805

helf 2y ago

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 https://mightyframe.blogspot.com/p/history.html?m=1 https://mightyframe.blogspot.com/p/history.html?m=1

gonzo 2y ago

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).

runjake 2y ago

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.

shrubble 2y ago

I know he had started an SEO business at some point, but lost track of him over the years. I worked with him at Xi Graphics in the 1990s; I credit Jeremy with helping me a great deal in learning and really understanding "the Unix way".