Phoronix.com Turns 19 Years Old For Covering Linux Hardware, Open-Source News

[phenix the firebird]

Good job your analysis and reporting is always great and is a leading source. I am happy to be a subscriber.

[NathanG]

Congratulations! 👏

[Adarion]

Happy birthday! Is it already 19 years... time moves quickly... Nostalgia and not so nostalgia (the mentioned driver issues, 56K modems) mix.
Thank you for all the coverage related to Linux/FOSS and Hardware. Thanks for all your effort, for sometimes stepping on people's toes, for continuing to ask harware vendors for Linux support.
It's been a pleasure to be and stay informed here; and your site still is pretty unique.
Maybe the beer be with you!
(I'd raise a German beer for a "Prost!" but then, I don't drink it. I hope a lemonade will do, and beer of choice for you.)

[Old Grouch]

Phoronix is also known for 19 years of neckbeard literalists whose goal in life is to nitpick mundane details that anybody with basic social skills (beyond yelling at their mother from the basement) would get the gist of.

You say that like you think it is a bad thing.

Eats, shoots, and leaves.

A lot of people here have the necessary mindset that details matter. Getting a variable name almost right doesn't cut it, neither does a subroutine call with arguments in the wrong order. Good spelling, syntax, and grammar are required for programming.

10 Pront "Infinite Loop
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30 End

[schmidtbag]

You say that like you think it is a bad thing.

Eats, shoots, and leaves.

A lot of people here have the necessary mindset that details matter. Getting a variable name almost right doesn't cut it, neither does a subroutine call with arguments in the wrong order. Good spelling, syntax, and grammar are required for programming.

Of course details matter, when getting them wrong actually has a consequence. Is the title grammatically incorrect? Yes. Did anybody who read it (including curfew) not understand what the message was trying to say? So far, no. At that point, the correction just makes you look like an insufferable asshole. Some people take things to a much worse extreme than curfew did. Seem to me 9/10 arguments here are because of:
A. Hyperbole taken too literally.
B. A generalized statement that is interpreted as unanimous (because it wasn't specified otherwise).
C. An important detail that wasn't explicitly stated, but implied.
D. "Misusing" a word/term in a literal sense, whether that be anthropomorphizing (ie, "a CPU doesn't like to be hot"), a figure of speech, or being a little too generous with the word because it's unnecessary to explain in full detail (ie, "my OS is Linux").
E. Being factually incorrect about irrelevant details (ie, "I use KDE 5").

Anyone who does any of the above without the intention of polite+constructive criticism is someone I deem socially inept and destructive to the community. It is a bad thing. Unlike a compiler, spoken language (particularly English) is flexible, and it is inherently human to make mistakes. It makes no sense why anyone would intentionally say something prone to misinterpretation, yet people here can't seem to handle anything that isn't verbatim or literal.

[Old Grouch]

Of course details matter, when getting them wrong actually has a consequence.

I'm glad you agree with me.

[schmidtbag]

I'm glad you agree with me.

If you read the rest, you'd realize I don't in this context.

[Lanz]

I'm glad Phoronix has remained a bastion of free speech in the tech community, where all view points are allowed and the boards are quite uncensored.

[schmidtbag]

I'm glad Phoronix has remained a bastion of free speech in the tech community, where all view points are allowed and the boards are quite uncensored.

I'm not so sure about that. There are several users who have been banned. Each of them were notoriously argumentative or provocative. Due to the lack of moderators, such people likely enjoyed how unrestricted they were, and got carried away to the point that Michael was getting too many complaints to let it continue. He doesn't have time for that crap, so banning them was easier than censorship.

[BHZeto]

Thank you, Michael. I really like your approach to automation and benchmarking.
Hopefully Phoronix gets more eyeballs coming forward!