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I cannot stand reading anything on Phoronix. The person who writes those articles really, really grates me. It seems all finger pointy and blamey all the time.

I cannot stand reading anything on Phoronix. The person who writes those articles really, really grates me. It seems all finger pointy and blamey all the time. I've not seen too much constructive or useful information come out of that site in a long, long time. And as for Wayland. I keep coming back to one thing for it...input. I don't know if anyone is going to pick that up. Seems like the weakest bit of X and someone will need to redo quite a bit of that work for Wayland and I remember when X was struggling to get people to work on that...can Wayland get someone to work on some of the most boring bits ever?

sandGorgon 15y ago
Phoronix's analysis for power degradation on the linux 2.6 kernel was a brilliant[1] resulting in a patch [2]. language, on the other hand is another story. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_aspm_solution&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux... [2]https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/10/467 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/10/467
freehunter 15y ago
The only time I've ever seen Phoronix is either faulty benchmarks comparing Windows and Linux or for "Steam is coming to Linux! No it's not. YES IT IS! Wait no, I guess it's not... OMG IS THIS A LINUX STEAM CLIENT?!"
viraptor 15y ago
Maybe I'd care more about the language if this was just some random blog... But these guys are a bit different. There's always some data and process explanation behind each of their posts. They might not be great programmers and OS contributors, but they're doing something really important anyway and are doing it in a pretty transparent way. There were many situations where I learned something from Phoronix or found a performance-related answer there. They're also a bit different from other blogs in that they follow up on a story. While others report "this is broken, whaaa!" and find a new topic the next day, Phoronix will write up posts about ongoing progress to fix the thing (typically). For the effort they put into it, I can completely ignore the language they're using. And if they blame a specific thing/group... as long as they're correct - I don't mind :)

sandGorgon 15y ago

Phoronix's analysis for power degradation on the linux 2.6 kernel was a brilliant[1] resulting in a patch [2]. language, on the other hand is another story. [1] http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_aspm_solution&num=1 http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux... [2]https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/10/467 https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/10/467

freehunter 15y ago

The only time I've ever seen Phoronix is either faulty benchmarks comparing Windows and Linux or for "Steam is coming to Linux! No it's not. YES IT IS! Wait no, I guess it's not... OMG IS THIS A LINUX STEAM CLIENT?!"

viraptor 15y ago

Maybe I'd care more about the language if this was just some random blog... But these guys are a bit different. There's always some data and process explanation behind each of their posts. They might not be great programmers and OS contributors, but they're doing something really important anyway and are doing it in a pretty transparent way. There were many situations where I learned something from Phoronix or found a performance-related answer there. They're also a bit different from other blogs in that they follow up on a story. While others report "this is broken, whaaa!" and find a new topic the next day, Phoronix will write up posts about ongoing progress to fix the thing (typically). For the effort they put into it, I can completely ignore the language they're using. And if they blame a specific thing/group... as long as they're correct - I don't mind :)