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0 pointssimcop23879y ago0 comments

One of the biggest reasons I read it is that it's the best place I've found for news about Mesa, Wayland, and other Linux graphics support topics.

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scrollaway9y ago

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.

sandGorgon9y ago

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.

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUxMw

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0MTM

PTS evolved into openbenchmarking.org which has had 17 MILLION downloads for people using it to benchmark and test their desktops and hardware. https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=17-Milli...

scrollaway9y ago

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.

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PeCaN9y ago

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.

1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-wor...

mikekchar9y ago

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...

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scrollaway9y ago

sandGorgon9y ago

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=OTUxMw

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=MTA0MTM

scrollaway9y ago

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.

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PeCaN9y ago

1. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=talos-wor...

mikekchar9y ago

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