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Michael Larabel — Founder of Phoronix, creator of the Phoronix Test Suite
Linux Hardware Reviews, Performance Benchmarks & Open-Source / Free Software News
phoronix.comWhen a fraction of 1% of readers are paying Phoronix Premium subscribers and paired with all the other web publisher difficulties these days, operations remain difficult but I persevere to keep going due to my passion for the Linux hardware space.
A one-person institution. Michael Larabel has been the sole author of Phoronix for over 21 years, publishing thousands of articles a year on Linux kernel development, hardware benchmarks, and open-source graphics drivers. He built the Phoronix Test Suite — the benchmarking framework used across the industry — and uses it to produce the data-driven reviews the site is known for. Nobody else covers this space with this depth, this consistency, or this volume.
Written by Michael Larabel since 2004.
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