A central component of my ARM versus x86 report published last week on Bright Side of News* was my miniBench benchmark. For that analysis, I ported miniBench to Linux for both x86 and ARM ISAs.
The ARM project can now be downloaded here. You will need the Code::Blocks IDE to manage the GCC C++ project. Code::Blocks is available from the Ubuntu repositories so it is very easy to install. Of course, you will also need to minimally install gcc, g++ and gdb.
The miniBench x86 project is available here. The x86 Linux binary is here and the ARM binary is here.
I will merge the x86 and ARM projects and upload them to SourceForge shortly.