Articles by Timothy R. Butler

Timothy R. Butler is Editor-in-Chief of Open for Business. He also serves as a pastor at Little Hills Church and FaithTree Christian Fellowship.

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Mandrake Releases First 9.1 Release Candidate

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 18, 2003 at 9:07 PM

MandrakeSoft's Mandrake Linux 9.1 made a major step towards release today as the first release candidate started appearing on servers. The distribution, which has been in “beta” for about a month, should be available in stores mid-second quarter 2003.

Lindows at the Showdown

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 14, 2003 at 12:14 AM
Lindows has aimed to become the GNU/Linux distribution for anyone coming from Windows to Linux (hence the name). They have, without a doubt, pushed the envelope for marketing and pushed the operating system into the mainstream media and retailers. Still, does LindowsOS have what it takes to be the victor of the Penguin Shootout?

Introducing News Watch

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 14, 2003 at 12:12 AM

News Watch provides the latest enterprise GNU/Linux and Free Software headlines from around the web
conveniently on the OfB.biz homepage. In essence, News Watch provides for the return of the high quality enterprise GNU/Linux news aggregation that we offered before refocusing on original articles. In addition to the News Watch box on our front page, each of our topical categories now
features a News Watch section to make it easy to spot other resources of news, in addition to Open for Business, for each topic.

SuSE Linux 8.1 Takes Our Challenge

By Timothy R. Butler | Feb 07, 2003 at 4:18 PM

SuSE Linux 8.0 earned positive marks from us last summer for its strong feature set and low occurrence of bugs; will SuSE Linux 8.1 be able to keep up with its older sibling and win the Penguin Shootout? Find out all of that and more below.

Desktop Linux Event Continues to Lose Support

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 30, 2003 at 2:41 PM

Lycoris, the producers of the popular Desktop/LX GNU/Linux distribution announced today that they were withdrawing from the first annual Desktop Linux Summit, of which they were scheduled to take part. The move echoes those made by Hewlett-Packard and DesktopLinux.com earlier this month.

UPDATE (2003/01/30 16:25 EST): LinuxToday has published an open letter to Lindows.com from the Linux Show. A link has been added below.

Free seminar 1/28: The Role of Product Marketing in an Open Source World

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 26, 2003 at 2:00 PM

Scott Allen wrote in to let us know about an interesting sounding web cast that he will be presenting on Tuesday. Details follow below.

Knee-Jerk Reactions in A Penguin World

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 25, 2003 at 11:49 PM

In our on-going GNU/Linux review series, we have received much criticism from loyal users of the various distributions we have covered. Timothy R. Butler notes that many of the issued raised by those who commented on the series were cases of knee-jerk reaction and ponders how such reactions impact the community at large and its appearance to outsiders.

Red Hat Slips off a Curve

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 22, 2003 at 6:55 PM

In the third part of our Penguin Shootout series, Timothy R. Butler considers the latest distribution from the best-known name in the sector - Red Hat. With its much hyped and attacked BlueCurve interface and various other improvements, will 8 be the Shadowman's ticket to victory in our challenge? Read on to find out.

Desktop Dreams in the Wake of MandrakeSoft's Bankruptcy

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 15, 2003 at 11:14 PM
Linux's dreams for the desktop died today with Mandrake's bankruptcy filling. Yes, it was a worthy cause, and we fought hard, but now it is time to admit it -- it is over. No more. Finished. Done. Kaput. GNU/Linux's true place is on the server, and its time for everyone to recognize that. Is everyone with me?

MandrakeSoft Files for Bankruptcy Protection

By Timothy R. Butler | Jan 15, 2003 at 12:48 PM
MandrakeSoft, the developer of the popular Mandrake Linux distribution, declared bankruptcy in France today. The filling, which the company says is "similar to the U.S. Chapter 11-Reorganization," is hoped to help the company escape the financial issues that have plagued the company over the past few years.

Editor's Note: Several people have suggested that this article gives the impression that MandrakeSoft has gone out of business. This is definitely not the case. The company is hoping to use these proceedings to escape various debts so that it can continue operations.
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