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> Linux needs a standard set of benchmarks that are vaguely representative of things users use Linux for.

Have you seen phoronix framework + benchmarks? They use common tools, but did some good work on making the tests repeatable and accessible to anyone else.

https://github.com/phoronix-test-suite/phoronix-test-suite/

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Linaro is also doing a lot in that space (at least for ARM): https://www.linaro.org/os-build-and-test/

Just minor nitpick. Phoronix is one guy

Correct, but I like British grammar, where companies are plural :-)

The test suite is open source, I'm sure Michael would appreciate some help :)

they can be singular

Without knowledge of preferred pronouns, "they" seems appropriate.

As I read it, the point was not about the wrong pronoun but about the fact that the suite is developed by one person and not a large team and that the burden of benchmarking Linux performance should maybe not rest on one person alone.

You missed his point. There was no wrong pronoun, this is what he is claiming.

viraptor 1 : 0 the west.

...and people like to pretend this kind of nonsense hasn't penetrated into every social space.

It unfortunately still hasn't penetrated into the most old school ones, apparently. Whatever you are talking about anyway.

If by "old school" you mean "everywhere outside of Silicon Valley", then maybe. Coming from a pretty conservative society, I read these sorts of discussions with mild amusement. I may have formed a mistaken impression of the US society, but it seems to me that it tends to bounce from one extreme of political or social views to another.

I would not know, I live in Europe ;-) Extrema do exist here though.

A single data point does not an argument make

But Michael tends to use "we" in his writings.

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