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<<But what if you run something like Linux or OS/2? Not everyone uses Micro$ofts' bloatware, so we need different benchmarks. Just my 2 cents. >> YOU can perfectly well run the Spec suite under Linux or Os/2, but it is probably not worth while to do so, since the results are unlikely to be particularly operating system dependent. If you wnat to measure the effect of architecture changes on OS performance specifically, then of course you will need specialized benchmarks, but I doubt there is very much variation between OS's in this respect.