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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Qt vs. MFC

By Timothy R. Butler | Aug 02, 2002 at 6:03 PM

Philippe Fremy has written a nice piece describing the benefits of the Qt toolkit over Microsoft Foundation Classes (MFC). For those of you not familar with Qt, it is the toolkit used by the KDE desktop as well as the Qtopia environment featured on the Sharp Zaurus PDA. Qt - unlike MFC - works on Windows, Linux, UNIX, and Mac OS X (Aqua).

RedHat to KDE: ''Do as I say, not as I do.''

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 29, 2002 at 11:44 PM

It started seemingly innocuously enough; a letter was received by one member of the KDE development team asking the KDE Project to use RedHat Linux on machines at LWCE and to display RedHat's shadow man logo on those machines. In exchange, the letter from RedHat explained, KDE would “benefit from many valuable marketing benefits in our booth, on our website, and in our newsletter.”

UPDATE (7/30/2002 15:21 and 16:04 EDT): New information from RedHat is available at the bottom of this article.

OfB Open Choice Awards 2002

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 26, 2002 at 2:06 AM
Picking the best applications and solutions out of all the wonderful options that have become available for Linux is no small task. However in this first annual OfB Open Choice Awards, we attempt to do our best at just that. While some of our choices might prove somewhat controversial, we feel that all of the picks are uniquely situated as the best choice for deployment in the enterprise.

Debian Hits 3-Oh with Woody

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 22, 2002 at 6:16 PM

In an announcement late last week, the Debian Project released its much anticipated Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 distribution. Debian is well known for its high level of stability, as well as powerful package (software) management tools.

Walmart.Com Starts Offering Mandrake Boxes

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 15, 2002 at 12:31 PM

In a move anticipated since rumors of talks leaked out last month, MandrakeSoft issued a press release today announcing the availability of PC's at Wal-Mart's internet division with Mandrake Linux preloaded. This move follows Wal-Mart's earlier offering of PC's with LindowsOS pre-installed last month.

Is SuSE 8 SuPERB?

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 12, 2002 at 12:00 PM

When my copy of SuSE Linux 8.0 arrived, I felt almost like I was coming home after a long trip. SuSE had been my primary Linux distribution for over two years, until last November, so it was exciting to see what they had been up to. SuSE 8.0 seems as good a way as any to come back to SuSE, after all it was the first distribution to ship with KDE 3, and it comes with a truckload of improvements over previous versions.

MandrakeSoft Will Not Unite with UnitedLinux

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 02, 2002 at 5:17 PM

MandrakeSoft has released a statement detailing the reasons why Mandrake will not join United Linux. The two key reasons for the decision repeated through out the document consisted of UnitedLinux's non-Free nature and lack of any advantages for MandrakeSoft.

Leading independent Linux websites form one-stop news portal

By Timothy R. Butler | Jul 02, 2002 at 12:05 AM
LinuxDailyNews Hits the Web during wIndependence Week

July 2, 2002 (The INTERNET). Five popular independent Linux websites today unveiled LinuxDailyNews, a collaborative portal site where visitors can get thumbnail glimpses of the latest news and content from each participating site. The founders of LinuxDailyNews are Open for Business, DesktopLinux.com, LinuxDevices.com, and Linux and Main. Those sites were joined before rollout by member site KernelTrap, and other sites are expected to be added in the future.

Consortium to Launch Linux Cooperative

By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 28, 2002 at 6:52 PM

A group of leading independent websites are planning to launch a new Linux cooperative website in conjunction with “wIndependence Day 2002.” The unveiling of the new web site is scheduled to take place early next week.

GNOME 2 Released, Presents Challenge to KDE

By Timothy R. Butler | Jun 26, 2002 at 10:06 PM

The Gnome Foundation announced the final release of the much touted, much delayed GNOME 2 desktop environment today. As the desktop of choice for RedHat Linux and Debian GNU/Linux, as well as Solaris and HP/UX, the significance of this release is only rivaled by KDE3's release in April.

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