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Being less information dense than Phoronix is an achievement That idiot stuffs his "articles" with so many pages littered with ads to milk every single penny h

• cwillu 5y ago
  Believe me, it hurt my soul to point out that this was a rehash of something michael wrote. But the fact remains that the only informational content of this post came out of the legwork performed by another party. I can't read the word “phoronix” without mentally substituting “moronix”, but the point stands.
• 5e92cb50239222b 5y ago
  That "idiot" also works 20 hours a day and barely comes even at the end of the month despite all those advertisements. It's a one-man shop. I am no fan of Phoronix, but give him a break.
  • stonogo 5y ago
    Maybe there isn't a market for working 20 hours a day posting content-free articles sourced from other freely-available news sites, and he should find other work?
    • samus 5y ago
      He also maintains a general-purpose benchmark collection and uses it to perform regular performance tests for to-be-released Linux kernels. Several times serious performance regressions were found (most recently because of AMD power management and on Alder Lake). Maybe he should indeed stop helping big companies save money this way, but the Open Source scene would be worse off as a whole.