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4 unusual facts about Michael Larabel


Michael Larabel

Larabel is also the lead developer of the Phoronix Test Suite - an open-source benchmarking software package for Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, BSD, and Windows operating systems - and related software such as Phoromatic and PTS Desktop Live.

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On 31 March 2010 Michael Larabel announced he was going to take a trip to the Chernobyl disaster site, and that he would post high-definition photographs of the area on Phoronix or potentially a new Phoronix Media website.

Michael Larabel would once again start rumours following the announcement of Steam for Mac OS X, claiming to have found Linux related references in the Mac Steam client and eventually claiming to have found a Linux client which was under development, available from Valve's servers.

Phoronix was started in June 2004 by Michael Larabel, who currently serves as the owner and editor-in-chief.



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Xubuntu

Michael Larabel of Phoronix carried out detailed benchmark testing of betas for Ubuntu 7.04, Kubuntu 7.04 and Xubuntu 7.04 in February 2007 on two different computers, one with dual Intel Clovertown processors and the other with an AMD Sempron.