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Which UNIX OS is going to give me the most versatility? I Want Total Control

I am going to be switching to something Unix for my primary OS, and I really need to know right now, which one is going to be able handle getting tweaked up entirely, and be able to stay fluent doing all the stuff I plan on doing using Unix?

I need to be able to have grass roots control sometimes, and get as close to hardware and their instructions as practical . Then the rest of the time, I also would like it to be fluent on its own, for efficiency and convenience, and wouldn't mind it packaged with the essentials, like having codecs; also handling basic drivers on its own would be a big plus.

That being said, I still want to be able to get at anything/everything (all the nooks and crannies) without it being an obstacle to get at, but it's also nice to have the OS accommodating me while doing that as much as practical.

Just a few examples of the things I'm envisioning doing (some demanding, some convenient, and some stuff just insanity and recklessness, and antics that you would maybe say aren't possible if they didn't sound like they could work):

- Put a second OS on the machine, completely gut it, like, straight up filleting the stuff I don't want out of the hard-drive and leaving only the bare bones, restricting it from taking up CPU usage, and letting it run in the background as just a command line.

- Rigging up ports on my motherboard to hook up devices that aren't meant for computers, or in some cases never intended to be hooked up to anything period.

- Keeping a surrogate PC solely as a first line 'dummy' so disruptive garbage getting dumped off by the internet for no reason gets sent there instead, that way I can look at the endless piles of crap and headaches and get to just stare at in awe without having it already being on my computer first. Then periodically do fresh installs on the dummy, and make it so the installer sets it back up for being a surrogate again automatically.

- Logging anything and everything that ever takes place on my computer, as one big unmanageable volume of raw data stored in the form of random characters and symbols that can't even be translated back into anything .

- Logging instructions from my actual processor by mining it out of my RAM, yielding mounds of gibberish to be read through by me later for no reason.

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cpuburn

cpuburn(1)																cpuburn(1)

NAME

       cpuburn, burnBX, burnK6, burnK7, burnMMX, burnP5, burnP6 - a collection of programs to put heavy load on CPU

SYNOPSIS

       burnBX
       burnK6
       burnK7
       burnMMX
       burnP5
       burnP6

DESCRIPTION

       These  programs	are designed to load x86 CPUs as heavily as possible for the purposes of system testing ("burn in").  They have been opti-
       mized for different processors.	FPU and ALU instructions are coded in an assembler endless loop.  They do not test every instruction.  The
       goal  has  been to maximize heat production from the CPU, putting stress on the CPU itself, cooling system, motherboard (especially voltage
       regulators) and power supply (likely cause of burnBX/burnMMX errors).  The programs produce no output, but  signal  hardware  errors  by  a
       return code or (more likely) your machine locking up.

       burnP5	 is optimized for Intel Pentium with or without MMX CPUs
       burnP6	 is optimized for Intel PentiumPro, Pentium II & III CPUs
       burnK6	 is optimized for AMD K6 CPUs
       burnK7	 is optimized for AMD Athlon/Duron CPUs
       burnMMX	 tests cache/memory interfaces on all CPUs with MMX
       burnBX	 is an alternate cache/memory test for Intel CPUs

USAGE

       Burn  testing  is  designed to make your computer glitch if it has hardware problems, so make sure that nothing critical is running and all
       critical data is saved back to the hard-drives.	The best is to run it with filesystems mounted read-only.  Note that root  privileges  are
       not required.

       Run  the desired program in the background, checking the error result.  You'll may want to repeat this command for every processor you have
       in an SMP or HyperThreading system.  For example,

	   burnP6 || echo $? &

       Monitor progress of cpuburn by ps.  You can monitor CPU temperature and/or system voltages through ACPI or using the lm-sensors package	if
       you system supports it.	When finished, kill the burn* process(es).  For example,

	   killall burnP6

BUGS

       Report all bug to submit@bugs.debian.org, for more information visit http://bugs.debian.org

AUTHORS

       cpuburn was written by Robert Redelmeier <redelm@ev1.net>

								   June 04, 2011							cpuburn(1)