Benchmarking OS's

["Justin Conover" <justin conover gmail com>]

What are some good test to run to benchmark OS's on the same hardware?

Not trying to flame Solaris or anything, but I'm curious because I run
several *nix's on my box, and Rawhide always seems to
visually/perception of running the fastest, and
Solaris(nevada/opensolaris) seems to perform the worst.

So I would like to run some test to find out if my perceptions are all biased :)