I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.
It's been around for a while, and is pretty well known articles related to Linux, hardware, and benchmarking. While I'm not especially interested in a lot of the topics they cover, I still think it's a valuable resource.
The guy scours a lot of mailing lists and posts about small releases and such. There isn't much content, but I've had phoronix in my rss reader for the titles alone; it's nice to be informed about that stuff.
This is extremely incorrect. He built a test suite PTS to uncover kernel regression and is credited for atleast one major power regression discovery.
A lot of his articles are interpretive, but it's the best way to digest progress in the Linux world on everything ranging from kernel to hardware..which he often surfaces using git commits.
On ~95% of his articles there is extremely little content. It's usually copypastes of release notes and emails.
Yes, I'm aware there's excellent articles on performance tests and such. They are rare.
I have a lot of respect for Phoronix for the sheer amount of time the guy invests in it, but it is pageview driven because of its ads. I sent in a tip on his paypal because of this as I'm hopeful this move will encourage less fluff and more high quality content.
Sometimes he does quite good in-depth articles (such as his Talos Workstation preliminary benchmarks[1]) but mostly it's a nice site to avoid having to scour mailing lists to hear about cool new stuff.
Yeah, I've actually used it as my main source for keeping track of Mesa progress. It's really useful. It may sounds stupid, but I didn't know he had a "premium" version. I should send him some of the bitcoins I mined when you could still mine with CPUs...
You couldn't spend more than 3 minutes on the site, yet I'm sure you spent plenty of time coming up with your (in your mind) witty comment adding no substance whatsoever to the conversation.
Phoronix is my go to site for Linux-specific hardware, graphics, benchmarking site. Other sites have those as well but they are also Windows / Mac focused, which I am not as interested in.
this site that publishes thousands of original articles per year and is the only place to find extensive Linux benchmarks, graphics driver news, and more
