Re: "the guy ... who engineered machines to beat Gary Kasparov"
And the remaining 0.09 % are, I suppose, longing for a well-deserved brew ...
A while ago I was skeptical about Ubuntu in the DC, but they do seem to manage. Even in our IBM / RHEL shop they managed to slip a few installs here and there. I can't really comment on reliability / support (too few of them compared to RHEL) but nothing catastrophic. That being said, given the recent turn of events they'll probably be progressively replaced by RHEL boxen in the coming years ...
Biting the hand that feeds IT
