[citation][nom]fatkid35[/nom]this seems nuts to me. benchmarking a rough os is like trying to enter a car, you built from scratch and finished the night before, into a race. test it some more first. either that or don't be suprized when the wheels fall off. this all seems so premature. at least with win7 they worked on it a ton, then let us test the semi-final product. at least that what it seemed like to me. maybe im wrong here.[/citation]
The good thing is that you can see where the performance penalties are for some of the design decisions being made (like the EXT3 vs. EXT4 filesystems), and since it's open-source developers can contribute back by submitting optimizations or tweaks.
Also keep in mind that Chromium OS compiles and runs just fine right now, so people can use it if they want. With a benchmarking article like Phoronix's, they can tell what they're headed for if they choose Google's OS over its competition at the moment. When Chrome OS is officially finalized and released, by that time Ubuntu will probably be on the 10.4 version of their Netbook Remix, which is scheduled to have even more optimizations for booting fast and being usable on netbook hardware. For the time being it definitely looks like the overall best mainstream option for netbooks, and Chrome will have some work to do in order to catch up by release.
Personally, I was suprised that Chromium OS ran as many of the benchmarks as it did, being basically a browser sitting on top of the kernel. Not really shocked that it couldn't run the games.
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