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More on Queen Elizabeth II and Linux
moonboy writes "I know Netcraft exposed this awhile back, but here is a new story. This quote says it all: "We'd been running Sun Solaris since 1994, it was coming to the end of the life cycle for early machines and direct replacements would have cost a lot of money. We'd been running Linux on Intel [computers with Intel processors] internally for testing and had been impressed with their reliability and you can't beat them in the bangs for your buck department. It blows Sun [computers] out of the water and, as a web server, Linux is great. So we did some load testing internally and managed to get some more than satisfactory results." 'Nuff said. Here is the Sunday Times (UK) story" The article also says the Queen is a "keen web surfer." Good for her! Do you suppose she reads Slashdot? ;)
Guess most /.'ers are newbies in comparison
David Off
After a set of favorable press coming from disclosure that the Queen of England surfed the web and ran Linux on her dual PII boxes, several other royal families quickly followed suit with press releases of their own:
It was revealed that Queen Beatrix of Netherlands is an avid Perl programmer, generating her own cgi-bin scripts.
King Harold of Norway casually let it slip at a state dinner that he recently moved from awt to swing for his new Java interfaces.
Unconfirmed reports surfaced that Crown Prince Alexander of Yugoslavia has been one of the top contributors to distributed.net. He denied all reports and points to his seti@home scores in defense.
King Simeon II is testing the waters for a decree declaring Bulgaria as the first "Open Source Republic".
King Carl XVI Gustaf of Norway was revealed to be secretly posting replies to slashdot.org with subject titles of "Beowolf", "First Post", "who cares about RAM prices in Taiwan" and "Microsoft sux".
Royal families around Europe are uniformly denying that the rash of recent press reports were designed to make them appear more "common" and similar to the regular people.
B&H still have the Royal Appointment seal of approval on their packets of cigarettes
I wasn't sure about that. Prince charles has said that they're going to lose it, but I'm not sure when.
I can see the christmas speech now (I won't actually, but you know what I mean).
One is pleased to use Linux as an operating system when one cruises down the information motorway for pr0n. One is at www.qe2.uk and if one's subjects wish to link to one's page, one would be happy to reciprocate. One uses Red Hat and is happy to endorse it. Although one also likes suse, which is made by our German cousins. But if they won't take our beef, we won't take their Linux.
One is 31337.