The whole juggernaut that is now Linux on Dell started as the brainchild of two core individuals, Barton George (Senior Principal Engineer) and Jared Dominguez (OS Architect and Linux Engineer).
It was their vision that began it all back in 2012. It was long hours, uncertain futures and sheer belief that people really did want Linux laptops that sustained them. Here is the untold story of how Dell gained the top spot in preinstalled Linux on laptops.
[...] This first attempt at Linux on laptops failed mainly because most non-technical users were blinded by the cheap price and didn't understand what they were actually buying.
[...] This time the duo had the right initial market. It was big, commercial web-scale operators and their developers who were crying out for a fully supported Linux laptop.
People who do technical work, like Linux. People who don't, don't.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 18 2017, @12:54AM (1 child)
Out of curiosity what software do you use in linux when doing that.
(Score: 3, Informative) by NewNic on Saturday November 18 2017, @01:14AM
The 3 largest companies in the EDA business are Synopsys, Cadence and Mentor.
They do support Windows for some tasks and FPGA implementation is commonly done under Windows, but for IC design, there are key (and very expensive) parts of the tool set that only run under Linux: specifically RHEL and SuSE. SuSE is only used by one company for EDA work: Intel. Everyone else is on RHEL/CentOS.
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