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09-02-2010, 10:03 PM
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Phoronix Media, through Michael Larabel, announced on August 31st the immediate availability for download of Phoronix Test Suite 2.8, the best Linux-based benchmarking and testing platform for software and hardware validation.

Dubbed Torsken, Phoronix Test Suite 2.8.0 brings 134 test profiles, 56 test suites + PCQS, new analytics capabilities, new installation & external dependency management support, improved Windows 7 x64 support, OpenCL test capabilities, and many more other interesting features.

"Phoronix Test Suite 2.8 is another example of our commitment to providing the Linux and open-source communities with
a leading automated testing and benchmarking platform that is under constant evolution to adapt to the latest and greatest hardware and trends within the computing industry," said Michael Larabel, lead architect of the Phoronix Test Suite and founder of Phoronix Media in the official announcement. (http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=pts_28_torsken&num=1)

"The Phoronix Test Suite 2.8 release offers many exciting changes for end-users whether they are computer enthusiasts or QA engineers, while internally there are already many Phoronix Test Suite 3.0 features building that should prove to revolutionize our software stack and push a new trend in automated testing and benchmarking throughout the computing industry."

Phoronix Test Suite 2.8 is available for download (see download link below) for the Ubuntu operating system, and it is officially supported on the BSD, OpenSolaris, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X platforms.

Phoronix Test Suite is the best open source benchmarking and testing platform for software and hardware validation. With Phoronix Test Suite hardware vendors are able to easily test a multitude of software relevant to them, in an efficient manner for regression tracking and performance tuning.

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