14 DAY TRIAL // Phoronix Media, through Michael Larabel, announced on February 18th the immediate availability of the latest and stable version of their Phoronix Test Suite, the best Linux-based benchmarking and testing platform for software and hardware validation. Dubbed Lenvik, Phoronix Test Suite 2.4.1 can be called a maintenance release, as it includes lots of bug fixes and various improvements over previous releases. Also, updates for the Phoromatic client module were introduced in this new release. Phoronix Test Suite 2.4.1 is available for download (see the links at the end of the article) for the Linux, OpenSolaris, BSD and Mac OS X platforms. It is also available in the repositories of Ubuntu 10.04 LTS (Lucid Lynx) Alpha!
"For those out there using the Phoronix Test Suite, the first (and likely only) point release for the 2.4 Lenvik release is now available. The 2.4.1 release incorporates a variety of bug-fixes and other work that was back-ported to Lenvik over the past two weeks. Besides fixes, some of the other work includes many new updates to the Phoromatic client module and graphing improvements." - Michael Larabel said in the official announcement.
Highlights of Phoronix Test Suite 2.4.1:
· PTS result objects are now passed directly to pts_Graph; · The WatermarkURL option was added in graph-config.xml; · PTS_USE_OLD_DOWNLOAD_CODE override received drop support; · Test results are now merged faster than before, also similar tests can be paired; · Removed the prompt to upload results to Phoronix Global if there is no network connection; · Anonymous usage reporting is no longer available if the user failed to agree to the initial user-agreement; · The phoromatic.clone-results option was added. This option allows to clone test results from a Phoromatic repo (only if the clone option is enabled); · The phoromatic.system-schedule option was added. This option allows to see the Phoromatic server test schedule of a system; · The phoromatic.system-schedule-today was added. This option allows to see today's Phoromatic server test schedule of a system; · Test and system logs can now be uploaded to a Phoromatic server; · Interactivity support for on-click events was added; · On KDE4, the screensaver can now be started and stopped properly; · The MD5 hashes are now dropped in the wine-* humus tests; · Various other minor fixes!
For more details about Phoronix Test Suite, please visit its official home page!
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