This week on 5 June marks 21 years since I started Phoronix.com for providing Linux hardware reviews and open-source news. In marking the 21st birthday of Phoronix is a special [1]Phoronix Premium offering if you wish to show your support and hopefully provide for a successful year.

[2]Phoronix Premium provides you ad-free access to the site, multi-page articles on a single page, native dark mode support, priority feedback, and other benefits. Plus it helps in enabling the site to continue. Pay per impression web advertisements, Phoronix Premium subscriptions, and the occasional reader tips are the only funding for Phoronix.com to continue providing daily Linux/open-source news, Linux hardware reviews and benchmarks, etc. Unfortunately, the state of the ad industry outside the likes of YouTube and social networks is in a very bad and unfortunate state. Operations are difficult due to the frustrating state of the ad industry and rampant ad-block use. Especially with Phoronix.com being just me single-handedly running things every day and catering to the Linux hardware niche... Meanwhile, less than 0.5% of readers subscribe to Phoronix Premium .

Your support means a lot if you wish to join Phoronix Premium as part of the Phoronix 21st birthday to help the site stick around for another year. Or at least refraining from ad-block use or tips via [3]Stripe or [4]PayPal . If you do wish to join Phoronix Premium, for the 21st birthday is a special deal.

The standard rate for Phoronix Premium is typically $45 USD per year or $250 for a lifetime subscription. For this 20th birthday Phoronix special, you can go premium at $30 USD per year or $150 for a lifetime subscription . From now through the end of next Monday (9 June, end of day for any timezone... not particularly strict) is this premium special.

To take advantage of this deal, first ensure you need to be registered on the [5]Phoronix Forums as the forums are what handles the subscription/user management aspect. There isn't any integrated sales support in there so the normal prices of premium subscriptions are listed there still. To get the discounted deals of $30 for a year subscription or $150 for a lifetime subscription, PayPal the amount of money to [6][email protected] (or you can use [7]this PayPal link ). For those preferring not to use PayPal or just want to use a CC directly, [8]this Stripe link is accepted as well . Or if just wanting to provide a birthday/anniversary tip via those means, that's fine too and much appreciated. Sending any amount extra will be treated as a tip or can be renewed for multiple years if desired, thanks! Then as soon as possible I will have activated your forum account to premium status. If your payment email address is different from your forum's registered email address, please include your forum username when making the payment. Custom corporate/company-wide subscriptions and more can be made available by contacting me or for other options.

Thanks for considering your support over the years of covering Linux hardware. On Thursday will be more 21st birthday commentary and over the coming days a number of exciting benchmark articles and other content in marking twenty-one years of Linux hardware reviews.



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