2. A variety of benchmarks

The performance of a Linux system may be measured by all sorts of different benchmarks:

1. Kernel compilation performance.
2. FPU performance.
3. Integer math performance.
4. Memory access performance.
5. Disk I/O performance.
6. Ethernet I/O performance.
7. File I/O performance.
8. Web server performance.
9. Doom performance.
10. Quake performance.
11. X graphics performance.
12. 3D rendering performance.
13. SQL server performance.
14. Real-time performance.
15. Matrix performance.
16. Vector performance.
17. File server (NFS) performance.

Etc...

• Conclusion I: it's obvious that no single benchmark can provide results for all the above items.
• Conclusion II: you must first decide what you are trying to measure, then choose an appropriate benchmark (or write your own).
• Conclusion III: it's impossible to come up with a single figure (called Single Figure of Merit in benchmarking terminology) that will summarize the performance of a Linux system. Hence, no "Lhinuxstone" metric exists.
• Conclusion IV: benchmarking always takes more time than you thought it would.