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Their audience is not mainstream but enthousiast And professionals. They do not provide in depth analysis since they probably know the reader can do that for th
by consp 7y ago
Their audience is not mainstream but enthousiast And professionals. They do not provide in depth analysis since they probably know the reader can do that for themselves.
- wtallis 7y agoThat may have been true at one time, but the class of people who would consider themselves to be enthusiasts has broadened well beyond the class of people who can accurately judge how their workload corresponds to the benchmark results they're reading. The recent improvements in the Linux gaming situation have been a big contributor and has undoubtedly skewed the Phoronix audience.
- bubblethink 7y agoPhoronix serves two important purposes that nobody else does. 1) It serves as a news aggregator for a lot of different open source communities. You'd think that a site called hacker news would do that, but ironically it doesn't. Most content here is either heavily web dominated, or just random drivel about being excellent in life. 2) He runs his standard battery of tests on everything. A lot of upstream projects don't seem to have that much emphasis on performance regression testing. He has uncovered a few regressions and reported them upstream on a few occasions.
- wtallis 7y agoI greatly value Phoronix for both of those things; it's a great resource for both my work and personal computer usage. But it does mean that the traditional hardware reviews themselves are something of an afterthought.