[CamperBob2]

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.

[news_to_me]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix

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.

[simcop2387]

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.

[scrollaway]

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.

[sandGorgon]

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...

[scrollaway]

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.

[sandGorgon]

My problem with him is that it is bloody hard to actually buy premium. I just want to click a button and be done with it.

[PeCaN]

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...

[mikekchar]

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...

[yarou]

Interesting.

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.

[rubbingalcohol]

I agree with your sentiment.

[CamperBob2]

More of an indirect way of suggesting that basic presentation and marketing skills are more important than whoever runs the site evidently thinks.

[gojomo]

Only if the site wants short-attention-span users. If they want such users to move on, their presentation is win-win!

[rdtsc]

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.

[imron]

If only you'd kept reading the linked article:

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