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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."

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  1. FINALLY by PunkOfLinux · · Score: 4, Insightful

    A proper benchmark program for linux. Trying it now :D

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  2. The future holds e-penii and flamewars. by pwnies · · Score: 4, Interesting

    If this testing suite becomes decently popular, I predict a future full of flamewars about which distros are faster.

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

      If this testing suite becomes decently popular, I predict a future full of flamewars about which distros are faster.


      Considering how many Linux Users have built their own machines, I expect a Flamewar over parts AND OSes.

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    2. 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.

  3. Statistics by Meneth · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Damn lies aside, their website needs graphs, averages and stuff. It's not very useful when you have to browse through hundreds of individual benchmarks.

    1. 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.

  4. Virtualiztion by debatem1 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Virtualization should heat up on this news. I'm off to do a virtualbox-vmware head-to-head

  5. Of more use than benchmarks is... by AmiMoJo · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Of more use than benchmarks is the fact that there is finally a good Live CD for stressing your system. Very useful when building new PCs or overclocking.

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  6. Comparisons by Bert64 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    The site doesn't seem to offer a good way to compare systems side by side...
    You also need a lot of information to accurately compare linux benchmarks, not only the hardware configuration but also the compiler version and flags used to compile the kernel, test programs and dependant libraries.

    For that reason, i'd like to be able to compare...
    The same distro/programs on different hardware
    Different distros / compilation options on the same hardware

    I'm also curious about the speed and size of code output by various versions of GCC, from my limited testing 3.4.6 was much faster than 4.0 and 4.1, faster in *some* areas than 4.2 but gcc 4.3 was generally faster overall.

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