securitybreach Posted June 6 Posted June 6 Quote Phoronix has made it another year. Today marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com with a focus on providing Linux hardware reviews. Linux hardware support is a night and day difference then to today as is the overall ecosystem with all the major hardware vendors these days having some -- often significant -- levels of interest in Linux support. No longer is it typically a worry of whether your mouse, 56K modem, WiFi adapter, or other basic peripherals working but most often just a matter of how well the performance is on Linux, whether there is LVFS/Fwupd firmware updating support, and if other non-show-stopping features are supported. We still haven't managed the "year of the Linux desktop" but it's been wild with Chrome OS and Android being based on Linux, Linux coming to dominate the server world, Linux being ubiquitous to cloud computing, and Valve revolutionizing the Linux gaming space. During the past 21 years on Phoronix there have been more than 46,800 original open-source/Linux-related news articles published and more than 5,400 original Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured articles. 99% of which have been written by myself -- primarily due to the challenging economic environment for the Linux desktop/hardware niche. These days we get to enjoy most consumer hardware supported out-of-the-box before launch on Linux, Microsoft is even a major contributor to the Linux kernel and other open-source software, Mesa graphics drivers have become a huge success stories, open-source GPU drivers have become a striking reality from multiple hardware vendors, there no longer is having to deal with ndiswrapper or similar for WiFi support, vendors aggressively optimize Linux for performance thanks to servers/HPC, and there is just so much more to list for how the Linux hardware ecosystem has improved so much over the past two plus decades. Linux/open-source software at large is also much improved over the years. While Linux hardware support is tremendously better over the past two plus decades and much broader OEM/ODM support as well as more significant Linux use across all areas, sadly, the web advertising and web publishing space hasn't improved and worse than the early years. With the rampant use of ad-blockers, companies focusing their ad buys on the likes of YouTube and Facebook and other social networks and video content, and not many organizations interested in advertising exclusively to our Linux desktop-focused-primarily audience, this remains the biggest pain point and struggle with each passing year. It jives with similar burdens faced by community-oriented open-source maintainers. And it's a daily pain but I remain stubbornly passionate about Linux hardware...... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-Turns-21 1 Quote
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