I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by news_to_me » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 10:09 PM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #4

I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix

It's been around for a while, and is pretty well known articles related to Linux, hardware, and benchmarking. While I'm not especially interested in a lot of the topics they cover, I still think it's a valuable resource.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by simcop2387 » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 10:12 PM UTC

news_to_me wrote: post #5

CamperBob2 wrote: post #4

I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix It's been around for a while, and is pretty well known articles related to Linux, hardware, and benchmarking. While I'm not especially interested in a lot of the topics they cover, I still think it's a valuable resource.

One of the biggest reasons I read it is that it's the best place I've found for news about Mesa, Wayland, and other Linux graphics support topics.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by minaguib » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 10:17 PM UTC

I work in ad tech, and indeed some areas and experiences are less-than-optimal, especially in RTB.

Unless the site owner is selling highly-custom take-overs, skins or other non-standard formats, ad interference with site content and layout is almost entirely eliminated via the use of iframes.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by eugeneionesco » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 10:20 PM UTC

gavinh wrote: post #2

Unfortunately, the Premium Experience was an HTTP 504 in my case.

Yeah, but the site loaded very very fast, didn't it?

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by rdtsc » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 10:37 PM UTC

CamperBob2 wrote: post #4

I've been surfing around on the (slow) site for about two minutes now, and I still can't tell exactly what "Phoronix" is. Having the short attention span typical of my folk, at three minutes I'll close the tab and move on.

Phoronix is my go to site for Linux-specific hardware, graphics, benchmarking site. Other sites have those as well but they are also Windows / Mac focused, which I am not as interested in.

Re: I've Had Enough and Today Everyone Has the Phoronix Premium Experience

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Post by scrollaway » Fri, Apr 08, 2016, 10:41 PM UTC

simcop2387 wrote: post #6

news_to_me wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoronix It's been around for a while, and is pretty well known articles related to Linux, hardware, and benchmarking. While I'm not especially interested in a lot of the topics they cover, I still think it's a valuable resource.

One of the biggest reasons I read it is that it's the best place I've found for news about Mesa, Wayland, and other Linux graphics support topics.

The guy scours a lot of mailing lists and posts about small releases and such. There isn't much content, but I've had phoronix in my rss reader for the titles alone; it's nice to be informed about that stuff.