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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Acronis PartitionExpert: Your Very Own Partition Techie

By Timothy R. Butler | Apr 12, 2003 at 12:49 AM

A few months ago I had a few minutes of free time on my hands and so I made a stop at Best Buy to browse for some networking equipment. As I walked toward the hardware section, a software package caught my eye that I hadn't heard of before: “Acronis PartitionExpert.” Realizing the need for a good partitioning tool in many environments that use GNU/Linux, I made a mental note to contact Acronis when I got back to the office.

Who Wins the Shootout?

By Timothy R. Butler | Mar 17, 2003 at 10:14 PM

It has been several months since we began our quest to find the best desktop GNU/Linux distribution of the Fall/Winter 2002 batch. We have considered lots of distributions that attempt to innovated and streamline the Linux experience and now we consider who succeeded to push beyond the rest and win our award.

Why SCO Needs to Go

By Timothy R. Butler | Mar 07, 2003 at 10:39 PM

In the days before the presidential election in 2000, the local Republican Party held a large political rally in my town. During the rally, while the crowd anticipated the arrival of then Governor Bush, a chant could be heard throughout the arena: “No More Gore! No More Gore!” Here was a large group of people that felt it was time for change in the U.S. Government and this determination was expressed in that chant that spread across the building. Today, the GNU/Linux community doesn't face an election, but it does have a good reason to come up with its own chant, perhaps something along the lines of “SCO Needs to Go.”

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.

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