UnixBench is a very useful utility for benchmarking Linux systems, and creating reports for recording and comparison to other systems.

To install UnixBench, access your system as root, and run the following commands:

apt-get install build-essential libx11-dev libgl1-mesa-dev libxext-dev

wget http://byte-unixbench.googlecode.com/files/UnixBench5.1.3.tgz
tar xvfz UnixBench5.1.3.tgz
cd UnixBench
./Run