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Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Platform

Posted by timothy on from the mom-can-I-have-a-cookie-mom-can-I-have-a-cookie dept.

KernelPie writes "The Linux hardware site Phoronix.com has announced the release of Phoronix Test Suite 1.0, a Linux-based testing platform designed for benchmarking software and hardware. This suite ships with 57 tests and 23 test suites, which contain everything from open-source games to file encryption to encoding software. In addition, they have a global database where users can submit benchmark results and more — with over 1,000 submissions already. This testing software is licensed under the GPLv3 and is available for download."

3 of 34 comments (clear)

  1. Re:The future holds e-penii and flamewars. by QUILz · · Score: 2, Funny

    Oh don't worry, I'm sure we all know Linux from Scratch is the fastest.

  2. Re:Statistics by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    A graph? A GRAPH?! That sounds like a graphical representation to me. This is for Linux you noob, everyone knows text is the only way to interface with anything.

  3. Re:The future holds e-penii and flamewars. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    > I'm sure we all know Linux from Scratch is the fastest.

    CFLAGS="-O0 -mcpu=386"