Phoronix Test Suite brings Linux benchmarking to the desktop
Despite a variety of open source testing tools, until recently there wasn't an easy way to measure and compare the performance of two Linux-powered machines. Phoronix Test Suite (PTS), released this month, addresses this -- and how! Using the suite you can gauge and compare multiple Linux-powered machines to find out if a particular setup is better than another for a particular task, such as hosting a Web server or playing games.
PTS is developed by Phoronix Media, which also owns Phoronix.com, a site popular for its Linux-based hardware reviews and analysis. The tool is available for download as a source tarball as well as a precompiled binary for Ubuntu and Debian. It has minimal dependencies and detailed installation instructions.
The tool comes with 57 tests which are logically grouped into 23 suites. So, for example, you can benchmark the performance of Ogg encoding on your system by running the encode-ogg test, or run the audio-encoding suite of tests, which benchmarks MP3, Ogg, FLAC, APE, and WavPack encoding. There are tests and test suites that can help you assess the performance of your computer for computational biology, gaming, GUI toolkits, audio and video encoding, building Apache, running PHP, compiling the Linux kernel, and more.
Also: Phoronix Test Suite 1.0.1 Released
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