Happy 5th Birthday, Phoronix!

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Phoronix: Happy 5th Birthday, Phoronix!

It was five years ago today, on the 5th of June 2004, that Phoronix.com launched. It was also one year ago to the day that Phoronix Test Suite 1.0 was released. Here are a few statistics and highlights from the past five years with what we have set out to accomplish with enriching the Linux hardware experience and driving Linux-based benchmarking and testing.

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=13922

[MartjeB]

Congratulations! :D

[superppl]

Something interesting to look at: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/phoronix.com and http://web.archive.org/web/*/phoronix.com

But anyway, Congrats! :D

Also, something just occured to me: I originally found Phoronix because I was looking for an alternative to 3DMark, preferably one that runs on Linux. Why not have a feature where the PTS has a default test mode that assigns an arbitrary number that correlates to how your computer performs? With a GUI, we can have a true replacement for 3DMark on Linux.

[maleadt]

Congratulations, and thanks for the interesting articles :)
Btw, any explanation on the sudden popularity increase (http://www.google.com/trends?q=phoronix) back in 2007?

[NeoBrain]

Congratulations, and thanks for the interesting articles :)
Btw, any explanation on the sudden popularity increase (http://www.google.com/trends?q=phoronix) back in 2007?

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=735&num=1
That one's even listed as one of the most popular articles ;)

Congrats Phoronix anyways, been an interesting year in 2008!

[mits]

Happy birthday
and thanx for all the news & articles!
keep it up! :D

[[Knuckles]]

Congrats, and keep up the good work!

[Kano]

Congratulations, most of the time really interesting news on this site. I like PTS too and would just like to see an open source server part (PTS Global).

[matti3]

congrats :)

[Apopas]

My best wishes the 5 years to become 50 :)

[storma]

Congrats and thanks. :D You guys have done a wonderful job!

[another_sam]

Congratulations !! !

[Vadi]

Grats! <fill in the rest of 10 char limit comment>

[L33F3R]

happy birthday phoronix We love you :p

[Zhick]

Something interesting to look at: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/phoronix.com and http://web.archive.org/web/*/phoronix.com
lol, most phoronix-visitors are acutally german. :D
Oh, and phoronix used to be a case-modding-site? :)

Anyway, congrats from me as well.

[Apopas]

Where's Greece in the list? :mad:

[d2kx]

Congratulations :cool: Always interesting news if you go to Phoronix :)

I found Phoronix when I failed installing fglrx 8.25.8 or so I think and Google told me "go to Phoronix". Never looked back ;)

[Michael]

Thanks everyone for the kind wishes.

[MetalheadGautham]

A bot wishing itself happy birthday. Sounds amazing ROFL.

[Apopas]

Btw Michael you should celebrate the birthday with a great article/benchmark :D

[Rambo Tribble]

Party like it's 2004 all over again!

[King InuYasha]

Congratulations Phoronix!

Keep up the great work, and best wishes!

Also, Happy birthday to me as well! My birthday is today as well :D

[KDesk]

Congratulations! And thanks for the great work!

[Setlec]

Happy birthday! Phoronix is the most linux news related that i check daily! keep that like that!

Cheers

[Kamikaze]

Happy Birthday Phoronix!
You're contributing a lot to the open source community :)

[dm0rais]

Happy birthday and long live to the linux community!

[curaga]

Congrats Phoronix :D

[BlueKoala]

Happy birthday!

[kraftman]

All the best! You're an only news site which I read every day :) Even if there aren't new articles ;)

[Odin]

Congratulations Phoronix, Michael and co. ;)

I would love to see (and even work for) a phoronix.de. :D

[Michael]

A German version of Phoronix might just come in the near future :) I have a meeting about it next month.

[d2kx]

German version of Phoronix... mmh not sure what to think about this. It could devide the community a bit, and most people (especially those that visit Phoronix) speak English anyway. If it's just translated news and no changes to the forums, that would be okay I guess.

[Michael]

German version of Phoronix... mmh not sure what to think about this. It could devide the community a bit, and most people (especially those that visit Phoronix) speak English anyway. If it's just translated news and no changes to the forums, that would be okay I guess.

The forums would remain in English. If Phoronix Germany goes through, it would more or less be just translated content and perhaps a few German extras and a testing grounds for other features.

[energyman]

well done!
Phoronix has become my No1 linux site (the fact that I dumped my 8600GT last year for a HD3870 was part of the reason).

[Odin]

A German version of Phoronix might just come in the near future :) I have a meeting about it next month.

looking forward to the result. ;D

[Zhick]

A German version of Phoronix might just come in the near future :) I have a meeting about it next month.
I think if you'd just ask for translators in an article you'd get a lot of responses. Obviously there are many germans around here. :) And translating from english to german is pretty easy.
Edit: One downside could be that this would probably attract many germans which don't speak much english - which obviously is also exactly the point of this. But they might still *try* to ask their questions etc. in the forum, which I guess might get annoying. ;)

[Odin]

Event coverages and news about the "german speaking linux scene" would appeal to more people around Germany, Austria and Switzerland than just translations of existing news and articles. In my opinion there should be both to get as much new users as possible.

I'm going to respect your decisions anyway, even if you don't agree with my thoughts. ;)

[dl.zerocool]

"Happy Birthday" !
Congratulations!
Thanks for beeing always up to date with great news and providing a good work, clear and professional.

All the best for the futur.

dlzerocool.

[Adarion]

Happy birthday.
Hope to see this source of goodness going on for many more years!

Cheers

[bugmenot]

Congrats! :)

[Deo10]

happy belated bday!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!