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Vibrant isn’t really the word I would use. “Lots of fixes” in the title is overly casual, and the first sentence of the article is completely incoherent: > It'

Vibrant isn’t really the word I would use. “Lots of fixes” in the title is overly casual, and the first sentence of the article is completely incoherent: > It's been seven years since the release of libX11 1.6.0 for this central X11 library while on Friday was replaced by the libX11 1.7 series. Like GP, I’m always surprised to see a Phoronix regurgitation-with-errors do so well on HN.

miltondts 6y ago
Would you prefer the exact wording from the mailing list, "a bunch of bug fixes"? Yes, the first sentence is confusing, but I still consider phoronix to be quite valuable. They always link to the original source, which is more than what many news sites do.
- tomstockmail 6y ago
  > Would you prefer the exact wording from the mailing list, "a bunch of bug fixes"? The mailing list [1] contains much more than "a bunch of bug fixes," arguably more than what the Phoronix link provides. >They always link to the original source, which is more than what many news sites do. I don't find this to always be the case with Phoronix, as well as when referencing previous news they do a self link to their other posts rather than straight to the original source. Besides, is it not Hackernews guidelines [2] to "submit the original source?" How does Phoronix get away without being changed to the the right URL so often? [1] https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-November/003065.html https://lists.x.org/archives/xorg-announce/2020-November/003... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
- edgyquant 6y ago
  > Would you prefer the exact wording from the mailing list, "a bunch of bug fixes"? I’d prefer a link to that mailing list and not a copy paste article.