Available Now: Phoronix Test Suite 2.8.1

Phoronix Media, through Michael Larabel, announced earlier the immediate availability for download of Phoronix Test Suite 2.8.1, the best Linux-based benchmarking and testing platform for software and hardware validation.

Today, September 9th, Michael Larabel proudly introduced the first maintenance release of Phoronix Test Suite 2.8.0 (Torsken), which brings a couple of bugfixes. He also announced the codename and goals for the next major version of the Phoronix Test Suite!

"For those using our Phoronix Test Suite for performance benchmarking, regression monitoring, or running other automated tests atop our open-source platform/framework, the 2.8.1 update to "Torsken" is out this morning. There are just a couple of small bug-fixes since the 2.8 release less than two weeks ago."

"Meanwhile, earlier this week I revealed the Phoronix Test Suite 3.0 codename is Iveland along with some other notes concerning this next huge release of the Phoronix Test Suite that will bring a plethora of changes in a revolutionary manner. The Phoronix Test Suite 3.0 "Iveland" release is expected in late 2010 or early 2011." - said Michael Larabel in the official release announcement.

Last week, Michael Larabel announced the release of Phoronix Test Suite 2.8.0, dubbed Torsken, which brought 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 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.

Download Phoronix Test Suite 2.8.1 right now from Softpedia.

The Phoronix Test Suite Live CD can also be downloaded from Softpedia.