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phoronix.com高调发布了linux下的测试套件"Phoronix Test Suite"。此套件遵循GNU GPLv3协议。
继周一的预告之后，phoronix.com如期发布了linux下的测试套件。此次发布的版本是v0.1.0。根据phoronix的说法，这是linux平台上最复杂的评测软件。其中包含了如下7个测试大项目：=================================
Phoronix Test Suite - Suites
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- Audio Encoding Test Suite  (audio-encoding)
- Timed Code Compilation Tests  (compilation)
- Phoronix Test Suite For Gaming  (gaming)
- Phoronix Test Suite For Graphics  (graphics)
- Motherboard Tests  (motherboard)
- Recursion Test Of Audio Encoding  (recursion-test)
- Universe Test Suite  (universe)

以及如下的17个评测子项目：
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Phoronix Test Suite - Benchmarks
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- ImageMagick Compilation  (build-imagemagick)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- Timed Linux Kernel Compilation  (build-linux-kernel)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- Timed MPlayer Compilation  (build-mplayer)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- Timed PHP Compilation  (build-php)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- Time Gzip Compression  (compress-gzip)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- Doom 3 (Demo)  (doom3-demo)
        Status: UNKNOWN License: NON-FREE

- Doom 3  (doom3)
        Status: UNKNOWN License: NON-FREE

- FLAC Audio Encoding  (encode-flac)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- LAME MP3 Encoding  (encode-mp3)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- Ogg Encoding  (encode-ogg)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars  (etqw-demo)
        Status: UNKNOWN License: NON-FREE

- Enemy Territory: Quake Wars  (etqw)
        Status: UNKNOWN License: NON-FREE

- ATI fgl_glxgears  (fgl-glxgears)
        Status: VERIFIED License: CLOSED

- hdparm Timed Disk Reads  (hdparm-read)
        Status: UNVERIFIED License: FREE

- Nexuiz  (nexuiz)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

- Quake 4  (quake4)
        Status: UNKNOWN License: NON-FREE

- RAMspeed  (ramspeed)
        Status: VERIFIED License: FREE

看起来很华丽吧。

呃，不要高兴的太早。这玩意并不像3dmark之类的那么…………易用？傻瓜？比较诡异的是，此软件还需要php-cli包的支持，所以，基本上，我们可以认为这是一套php编写的脚本。除了从官网上下载的脚本之外，你还需要自己准备测试环境需要的软件，比如quake4/lame-mp3之类的包。不过，用于炮制各个网站上经常出现的《N款XXXX显卡/主板终极评测》之类的文章来说，是绝对够用了。

Announcement: http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=12136
Project Web-Site: http://www.phoronix-test-suite.com/