The Most Comprehensive AMD Radeon Linux Graphics Comparison

[DaemonFC]

Here's some statistics for people.

First, the people calling Linux users cheap. roughly 40% of Windows installations are pirate copies (globally, and remember that snatching a less crippled edition than you have a license for is also "piracy") and the next time you see someone running expensive commercial software like Photoshop, there's a good chance that is too.

Free software is about freedom, not price. Although a lot of it is distributed free of charge as well. (Even going beyond the requirements of the license, like Red Hat often does.) It's impossible, as an end user, to pirate free(dom) software for obvious reasons. So consequently, there are no pirate copies floating around. (Unless you count all those big companies committing GPL violations)

You can also look at statistics like the Humble Bundles (which I bought), to see that Windows users are the cheapest, and Linux users are the most generous. Clearly if you're honest with people upfront, more of them will be inclined to pay a reasonable price, assuming the goods are sufficiently useful, educational, or entertaining. Windows users usually don't use it by choice (every computer has it, besides it's "free (included in the price of the PC)" anyway. Linux users are a self-selected group, and there's evidence that they are more generous than Windows users.

Now, the reason I cited this post above...

Fact: About 2/3rds of that page is advertising, by screen space.

Fact: A lot of ads use dangerous software called Flash, which is full of holes. "Rogue" advertisements using Flash have caused malware infestations on Windows time and again.

Fact: Ignoring the security problems, the ads all still track you in some way or another. Every Flash applet can easily be spyware for tracking companies.

Fact: Flash ads use a lot of bandwidth, maybe the person is blocking them because they are metered.

Fact: Flash ads are often loud, flashing , and generally obnoxious.

Fact: I don't want to see Microsoft advertisements and I don't care where they came from.

Fact: According to Privoxy statistics, roughly 30% of my traffic is blocked using the filters it came with. That's a lot of crap.

In closing, there's nothing the site owner can really do about this. Adblock blocking methods are easily bypassed and unless you want to start an arms race, you will end up (A) Giving up and figuring a few people using adblock isn't so bad or (B) Go pay only. And don't let the door hit you on the way out. Ask Rupert Murdoch how his churnalism sites in the UK did (pre-spying on politicians scandal even), when they went from free to paywall. Only a few hundred people in the entire country went for that. They don't work when there's a serious void of intellectually stimulating, factual, relevant, and single-source material. Translation: Do it, and good luck. Let me know how it works for you.

I think whining about ad blockers instead of fixing your abusive advertising practices is incredibly lame.

[FireBurn]

However, it's pretty clear to me now that this site is self-destructing. Michael has been trying to sell it off because he's no longer passionate about the topics, and no one is buying. He's frustrated, and starting to take it out on his readers which is just going to cause a downward spiral.

Is this fact or rumour?

[iuseadblock]

No conclusions + constant whining about Adblock = I'm leaving Adblock on. Forget paying for this stuff. It's barely worth my attention in the first place.

[AnonymousCoward]

I usually surf with adblock on, but I turned off adblock on Phoronix to see how bad it really is,

So did I.



LOL, the ads take up more space than the forum content and on top of that they're also animated. It's clear that for Michael this is all about maximizing revenue on mostly other people's content. Whether it be forum messages here or verbatim copies of mailing list messages disguised as articles. If you want to that support fine. I'm definitely not going to support this.

[bridgman]

Don't you use a feed RSS reader?

No, I just periodically go to the forum main page. Works fine.

RSS seems like it would be problematic because the links would go straight to the articles rather than via the forum, but I haven't actually tried it.

[darkbasic]

I usually surf with adblock on, but I turned off adblock on Phoronix to see how bad it really is, and guess what? It's no worse than any other hardware review site. The ads on Phoronix are comparable to those on Anandtech, or Toms Hardware. I guess Linux people are much MUCH more apt to complain about Ad's than window people.

Toms Hardware is one of the reasons why I ALWAYS install adblock every time I open a browser, even in a livecd

[darkbasic]

What do you think is broken about premium ? Every article on the main page gets a forum link when it gets posted (at least that's what I've always seen) so I find it a lot more convenient to go in through the forum URL anyways. I understand the auto-login doesn't work if you go straight to phoronix.com but I found it easier to go through the forums even before premium subscription was introduced.

Don't you use a feed RSS reader? I just can't use it

[disi]

Mobile GPUs unfortunately never follow the desktop naming conventions, using names seemingly at random and often with large performance deltas on mGPUs of the same name due to how the OEM clocked it and what speed of VRAM was used.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Rad...M.43077.0.html

The clock speeds are here (if reliable):

http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?54237-AMD-Radeon-HD-quot-Cayman-quot-Finally-Moves-On-With-Acceleration/page2

Only problem is... Yesterday, I played Warsow and suddenly the monitor went black. After a reboot it stayed black and if I use an external monitor, I can see the normal BIOS screen, but with small green lines all over the place. I get to GRUB (which is screwed up and shows some weird symbols for several characters), kernel is loaded and when kms is enabled the screen goes black again.

[Kivada]

How about this deal:

you start doing some of the tests I've asked for, and I promise to turn adblock off for at least a little while.

What are these tests I'm referring to? Doom3, ETQW, Unigine Sanctuary, and other games more stressful than Quake 3. I know you have to edit the driver defaults to get it working. I don't care.

This, and no, I'll turn off adblock only if Torvalds becomes CEO of MS. Your articles are far too shitty to pay for and you've showed only that you'd rather make them worse.

Side, tech and beer may go hand in hand, but unless you're gonna at least give us a BeerAdvocate.com style review on the brew it's irrelevant to be brought up, but since your hardware reviews are still so limp wristed it's clear you couldn't possibly handle the 5 mins it'd take to review a beer.

[Kivada]

Is the AMD 6970M so much different from the normal 6970?

Mobile GPUs unfortunately never follow the desktop naming conventions, using names seemingly at random and often with large performance deltas on mGPUs of the same name due to how the OEM clocked it and what speed of VRAM was used.

http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6970M.43077.0.html