Who is This?

Michael Larabel is the founder and editor-in-chief of Phoronix. He is also a Linux advocate and consultant. Michael Larabel had also received a great deal of attention for starting the ATI Technologies Redblog and issuing The State of ATI Linux. Michael founded Phoronix on June 5, 2004 originally as a personal website but has grown in popularity among Linux users.

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Chromium OS, Moblin, Ubuntu Netbook Remix Benchmarks

Intel released Moblin 2.1 earlier this month, Canonical released Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.10 late last month, and various other vendors have offered up their fall distribution refreshes too. Oh yeah, and Google just released the Chromium OS source ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  23 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  Google Inc.

Intel Linux Graphics Shine With Fedora 12

Intel's Linux graphics driver stack is often at the forefront of X.Org / Mesa innovations, from Intel being the first driver having in-kernel video memory management to being the first driver with mainline kernel mode-setting support to even being ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  20 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel

Mac OS X 10.6.2 vs. Ubuntu 9.10 Benchmarks

Similar to our August tests, we used a newer Apple Mac Mini for our Snow Leopard vs. Karmic Koala benchmarks. This Mac Mini is made up of an Intel Core 2 Duo P7350 clocked at 2.00GHz, NVIDIA MCP79 motherboard Chipset, 1GB of DDR3-1067MHz system ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: NVIDIA,  Intel,  Fujitsu

Samsung Sponsors The Development Of Enlightenment

Back in June Enlightenment E16 reached version 1.0.0 and then a few weeks later there was an E17 development snapshot released, but there hasn't been a whole lot of news out of the Enlightenment camp over the past year. In fact, most new Linux users ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  18 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Samsung Electronics,  Google Inc.

Going Beyond Just Measuring Frame Rates

Yesterday marked the release of Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 and it was the best version yet with the addition of many new exciting and useful features. While this release was gratifying, there are much greater plans for the Phoronix Test Suite going ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  18 Nov 2009

VMware Releases Its New Gallium3D Driver

Last Friday during the Gallium3D workshop we learned that the Tungsten Graphics developers that were bought out by VMware have been working on a virtual Gallium3D driver that would be used by guest operating systems running within VMware's ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  17 Nov 2009

Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 Further Expands The Linux Benchmarking Landscape

Phoronix Test Suite 2.2 "Bardu" provides an abundance of benchmarking capabilities and options for those looking to run automated performance tests on Linux, OpenSolaris, BSD, and Mac OS X platforms. Chicago, IL -- November 16, 2009 -- Continuing in ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  16 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

A Virtual Gallium3D Driver Coming For VMware

For months Sun's VirtualBox virtualization software picked up OpenGL and Direct3D acceleration support for virtualized guest operating systems, but now 2D/3D hardware-acceleration support for those running operating systems under VMware's ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  13 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Microsoft Corporation

Testing Out Linux File-Systems On A USB Flash Drive

In past articles we have delivered plenty of file-system benchmarks from testing out EXT4 to Btrfs to NILFS2. We have also delivered benchmarks from traditional hard drives to solid-state drives. One area though where we have not published any file- ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  11 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Intel,  NVIDIA

Reiser4 May Go For Mainline Inclusion In 2010

The Reiser4 file-system has been around since 2004 but has not reached a point of being close to be included in the mainline Linux kernel, especially after the lead developer, Hans Reiser, was convicted of murdering his wife. Development of Reiser4 has ...

From MICHAEL LARABEL, LXer,  10 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Hans Reiser

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