Phoronix 2008 Linux Coverage Recap

Written by Michael Larabel in Phoronix on 31 December 2008 at 09:38 AM EST. 2 Comments

This year at Phoronix we published 333 full-length original articles/reviews and wrote 691 news pieces -- with nearly all of them being about Linux or computer hardware in some form. Our total number of articles written at Phoronix since its inception in 2004 is over 1,300 articles and then about 2,000 news postings in the past two years.

Below are our most popular articles this year.

Mac OS X 10.5 vs. Ubuntu 8.10 Benchmarks
Ubuntu 7.04 to 8.10 Benchmarks: Is Ubuntu Getting Slower?
ATI Radeon HD 3650 512MB
Ubuntu vs. OpenSolaris vs. FreeBSD Benchmarks
Real World Benchmarks Of The EXT4 File-System
AMD Radeon HD 3200 / 780G
Intel GMA X4500HD
Eight Interesting Improvements In GNOME 2.22
Java Performance: Ubuntu Linux vs. Windows Vista
NVIDIA Performance: Windows vs. Linux vs. Solaris

Our most popular news stories were:

Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid's Theme
GNOME 3.0 Is Coming, And Coming Soon!
Driver-Free Car Runs Ubuntu Linux
Sun Provides 64-bit Java Plug-In For Linux
Farewell To The Linux 2.6 Kernel?
VIA Gives 16,434 Lines Of OSS Code
Battle Brews Over Firefox In Ubuntu 8.10
KDE 4.1 Release Schedule, Coming In July
An Update On Generic GPU Video Decoding
Intel's Graphics Execution Manager

Look forward to plenty more Linux hardware articles in 2009! In 2008, Phoronix.com also became an IDG TechNetwork web-site.