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So I did some digging, and it’s less clear than I thought.

I come from the embedded development world, where bare metal has been in use for a long time. Pre-2000s, this is exclusively what the term meant. Sometime around the mid 2000s, the virtualization services starting coopting the term.

So I guess it does indeed mean both, but being a stickler for tradition it doesn’t sit right with me. The term just makes more sense when you’re applying it to the hardware; bare. No middleman, and that includes an OS.

Bare metal Ubuntu

Just a nitpick but bare metal means no OS.

TIL DirecTV is still around.

That’s a horrible idea for so many scenarios. Maintenance, repairs, accidents, sales, accidental death… Yeah, no.

Every single one. Lol.

That budget is the key. You have to demonstrate/convince the purse holders first. This isn’t always an easy task.

The ones in quotes seem to not have version numbers.

Yeah reddit’s a weird one. Their financials, aside from this year, are also horrendous. Not sure what value they really bring.

You sure you mean bare metal here? Bare metal means no OS.