[citation][nom]adamovera[/nom]Phoronix is great, but I'm in search of cross-platform benchmarking tools (meaning Windows too). Just comparing Linux to Linux isn't as helpful (or provocative) to nearly as many people on a general PC hardware site. If you already don't care about comparing against Windows PCs, Phoronix is pretty dang sweet, but I won't be using it much for articles here. If anybody has suggestions for Linux/Windows benching, pls share, cause I'm putting together a battery of tests for future use.[/citation]
Well you definitely have a problem here. Linux folks are actualy not interested in cross=platform benchmarks as such
I mean filesystems are different, the whole OS infrastructure mostly too. And distro to distro will have different needs. F.e. Gentoo users want to see compilation times benchmarks (of some huge source tree). Fedora/Ubuntu and such are mainly interested in video/graphics encode/decode. Compositing benchmarks.
There are a very few common benchmarks for the casual user:
firefox/opera website rendering benchmarks (both exist on windows too).
video decode/encode with mplayer/mencoder and vlc player.
for gaming mostly wine to windows native difference. maybe blender benchmarks.
that's about it. I guess you are not interested much in server benchmarks.