Phoronix Test Suite LiveCD is a small Gentoo-based Linux distro aimed to provide capabilities of Phoronix Test Suite on any machine.

Here are some key features of "Phoronix Test Suite LiveCD":

· Server-like troughput-configured kernel.
· Command-line interface guiding trough process.
· Custom "Livecd" benchmark, composed from:

-Single core tasks (audio encoding)
-Multi core tasks (compilation)
-System performance (OpenSSL,GZip)
-Synthetical benchmarks (Scimark, Super-Pi)

· Export of results to USB.
· Wireless WEP connectivity (limited).
· Wired full connectivity.
· Upload of tests to www.phoronix-test-suite.com database.

Developer comments

The init process is not final yet. There is a step (Copying files to tmpfs) which takes quite long - at about 3-5 minutes. I'll work on that.

What's New in This Release:

· Broadcom 43XX cards support added, custom kernel, test reorganized.
· new series of benchmarks performed