Queen of England Gets Red Hat

Zerbey writes "According to Linux Today The Royal Family's web site is now running Red Hat as apposed to Solaris. See for yourself on Netcraft. Congratulations, Ma'am :) "

Comments

Re:The Queen? -> Her power.

[MattXVI]

Almost true. If there is an inconclusive parliamentary election, the Queen can appoint a Prime Minister, and it can be whomever she pleases. This has almost happened a number of times. Also, she can technically dissolve parliament and call for a new election at her whim. This, as you've said, is a prerogative not exercised since the time of Queen Anne. It probably wouldn't fly today, unless some very important crisis called for it.

All this ignores the real power of a Monarch, though. They have a sort of centrifugal effect on a country- they draw a sort of uber-loyalty that transcends mere politics. It's very valuable to have such a symbol of continuity and immutability, particularly in tough times. Ideally, they'd serve as a role model for the nation, though some royal families (the Windsors!!) have done an awful job of fulfilling this responsibility.

Maybe choosing Linux for Her Majesty's Web Servers is a good first step on the road to Windsor redemption.

Re:This is just the beginning

[cjs]

I thought the US system was summed up well many years ago, when the Beyond the Fringe gang explained the political system in the US to a UK person: ``There are two parties in the US: the Republican party, which is the equivalant of our Tory party, and the Democratic party, which is the equivalant of our Tory party.''

cjs

Not the first time

[Squirtle]

She was a RedHat user a year or so ago. Then she experimented with Solaris, but now she's back.

I bet she got sick of recompiling KDE and just installs it from RPMs nowadays.

Those Royals

[LordChaos]

Now that Australia is voting to remove the royal family from the ruling status, they finally do something worthwhile. Maybe we should have options like this in our upcoming referendum:
Should Australia become a republic?
1 Yes
2 No
3 No, because they use linux

Perhaps this is the best thing related to the royal family that has happened in a long while :)

We can't be sure she's serious about Linux...

[Stephen Williams]

...until she starts wearing a red hat instead of a crown.

Who made the decision?

[tilly]

This is truly hearsay, but I heard that the decision was made by a sub-contractor. But still it is a nice decision and Red Hat should certainly see whether they can get the standard, By appointment to... line approved. (At least for their British sales.)

:-)

Cheers,
Ben

I can see it now:

[ptomblin]

Red Hat Linux, By Appointment To Her Majesty The Queen.

This may be a bit off topic, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

...could any of you Linux experts give an old lady a hand?

Now that I got the server and the firewall running fine and dandy, I have been trying to set up a WWW site that would allow me to map the genealogical data of our fairly unique family tree. I'd like to find an application that would enable me to do this automatically.

All of the software I've tried so far crashes with "Too many unreferenced child nodes", "Circular references not permitted" or "Tree does not branch".

Any tips are greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, dudes!

st4y k00l,

Her Majesty the Queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and West Indies^W^W^W

This is just the beginning

[Pelerin]

In a move hailed by the Green Party, Christopher Hitchens, and Italian PM Massimo d'Alema, the Labour Party announced that they will use Slackware instead.

"Finally Labour is going back to its proletarian roots" an enthusiastic Christopher Hitchens was quoted as saying, expressing his hope that the adoption of OpenSource "will hasten the demise of that bunch of inbred, brain-addled morons". Asked to specify who he was refering to (Labour or the Crown), Hitchens declined to comment.

Others were not so thrilled. An angry Richard Stallman summoned the British consul to his Boston office and upbraided the diplomat for "the imperial arrogance" shown by the crown by not referring to "Red Hat GNU/Linux".

Meanwhile the Conservative Party expressed regret that the Queen had not "shown support for free enterprise and Capitalism" by adopting Microsoft's Internet Server. A spokesman for the Tories added, "we'll have lots more to say about this on our web site, just as soon as we reboot".

It's all colour-coordination.....

[cswiii]

...After all, what else would you expect redcoats to use? ;)

Linux:

[FascDot Killed My Pr]

The OS upon which the sun never sets.

Does anyone else think it's ironic that an operating system with designs on "world domination" is being embraced wholeheartedly by governments around the world?
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Put Hemos through English 101!
"An armed society is a polite society" -- Robert Heinlein

She wore on in 1998!

[pjones]

looks like shadowman to me

less so in this one