What Would You Like To See Next?

[staalmannen]

I think it would be cool to see a benchmarking deathmatch between different libc implementations:

Something like this:
(e)Glibc (dynamic) vs (e)Glibc (static) vs uclibc (static) vs dietlibc (static) vs bionic (metasploit port, static).

The Sta.li guys claim that static binaries are much faster. It would be nice to have some benchmarks on how big an influence different libc:s have on final performance sort of like how different compilers have been compared previously.

[curaga]

Michael, could you check up on your Via contacts on whether you could get a Nano dual core for review?

[Michael]

test test test

[Prescience500]

I think it would be nice to see running metrics of both proprietary and open source video drivers similar to the way a Mozilla employee made "http://www.arewefastyet.com/?machine=4" to show javascript performance improvements. That way we can see the rate of improvement of the drivers, especially the open source ones compared to the proprietary ones and maybe even their windows couterparts.

[0laf]

Just stumbled of this article "Ubuntu 10.04 Is More Power Hungry Than Windows 7". I think it would be very interesting to see if/how its possible to finetune and reduce the power-consumption of Ubuntu for example on an Asus-Eee-PC-1201N. I d say, it would be worth an extra article .

[DanL]

I like the idea of some howto videos or articles. Phoronix tends to report on what's happening & what's new but some more attention devoted to why something matters & how I might be able to use a feature (e.g. xr&r, multipoint x...) would make phoronix more interesting. I keep reading that TTM, gallium, etc. are getting updates but I still don't really understand what they do & how they do it better than something else. Veteran readers could just skim past the paragraph that explains the significance of the news while making reading phoronix more approachable for noobs like me.
One member shot down videos as a horrible idea. I think any howto video ought to have short&sweet written instructions to go along with it, but being able to verify that you're getting the same results as shown in a howto video provides more of a sense of security to the less experienced that it worked correctly.
Giving linux games more publicity would be good for everyone.
I'd like to be able to easily compare hardware performance, to see for example on a graph how much better off I'd be with a PhenomII X4 vs my 4850e or other stuff.

Did not read/ terrible format

[alazyworkaholic]

I like the idea of some howto videos or articles. Phoronix tends to report on what's happening & what's new but some more attention devoted to why something matters & how I might be able to use a feature (e.g. xr&r, multipoint x...) would make phoronix more interesting. I keep reading that TTM, gallium, etc. are getting updates but I still don't really understand what they do & how they do it better than something else. Veteran readers could just skim past the paragraph that explains the significance of the news while making reading phoronix more approachable for noobs like me.
One member shot down videos as a horrible idea. I think any howto video ought to have short&sweet written instructions to go along with it, but being able to verify that you're getting the same results as shown in a howto video provides more of a sense of security to the less experienced that it worked correctly.
Giving linux games more publicity would be good for everyone.
I'd like to be able to easily compare hardware performance, to see for example on a graph how much better off I'd be with a PhenomII X4 vs my 4850e or other stuff.

[Michael]

Would this be feasable Michael?

It's a possibility that may come to Premium subscribers.

[Yalla-One]

Mobile phone page formatting.

I would subscribe to Phoronix Premium if this was a feature (full article view, defaulting images off, but the ability to turn them back on).

Or Phoronix premium rss feeds so I can read the whole article in my feeds reader.

I second this - either a full-content RSS feed or phoronix.com formatted for mobile devices/smart phones would make a huge difference.

I normally keep up with Linux/OSS news on the bus to work, and loading the full page on my smartphone both takes forever and costs a fortune in data traffic.

Full-content RSS would be the preferred way, preferably in addition to a mobile-browser-detection on phoronix.com for mobile visitors.

Would this be feasable Michael?

[sabriah]

I would like to see what a Nokia N900 can do!

I would like to see what a Nokia N900 can do!

I don't expect miracles, but it would be nice to have a comparison with old PCs, to be able to say,

Hey, it runs like an old 486, Pentium2 333 MHz, P4 1.6 GHz, or a i7 2.67 GHz or whatever.

I have no idea what to expect, except that it runs Linux and manages both OpenGL and Qt 4.6 http://labs.trolltech.com/blogs/2009...t-on-the-n900/