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Phoronix Releases Linux Benchmarking Distribution

Posted by timothy on from the medium-infrastructure dept.

Bitnit writes "Phoronix has released a major update to their automated Linux benchmarking software, the Phoronix Test Suite, and more interestingly they have released their own distribution that's designed for hardware testing and benchmarking on Linux. With PTS Desktop Live they provide this Linux distribution that's to run only from a live environment off a DVD / USB key and then allows their benchmarking software to run — and only that — on this standardized software stack, which makes hardware comparisons a lot easier."

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  1. I'm afraid! by Parker+Lewis · · Score: 5, Funny

    "The only required dependencies for the Phoronix Test Suite on Linux systems is PHP 5.x CLI"

  2. Re:Speed - running off the CD by roger_that · · Score: 5, Informative

    Once the test is loaded, it runs from memory, and CD speed will not (should not) affect the test results.

  3. VirtualBox by owlman17 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Sounds great! I'll download it and try to run it in a VM.

    1. Re:VirtualBox by Cormacus · · Score: 4, Insightful

      nooo . . . but it would give you an idea of how much of a performance hit you take when running in a VM. Which could be interesting in and of itself.

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  4. Great! by Simian+Man · · Score: 4, Funny

    Now anyone can conduct highly inaccurate bench-marking tests and publish the results every few months!