More on Queen Elizabeth II and Linux

Posted by Roblimo on Tuesday October 19, 1999 @12:15AM from the penguins-in-the-palace dept.

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? ;)

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Re:Reality becoming more hallucinatory...? by David+Off · 1999-10-18 20:44 · Score: 5

According to Hobbes Internet Timeline (the semi-official history of the net) QEII sent her first Arpanet email in 1976 from the Royal Signals Establishment at Malvern.
Guess most /.'ers are newbies in comparison
David Off