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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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dca

dca(7D) 							      Devices								   dca(7D)

NAME

       dca - Crypto Accelerator device driver

SYNOPSIS

       pci108e,5454@pci-slot

       pci108e,5455@pci-slot

       pci108e,5456@pci-slot

       pci14e4,5820@pci-slot

       pci14e4,5821@pci-slot

       pci14e4,5822@pci-slot

DESCRIPTION

       The  dca  device  driver  is a multi-threaded, loadable hardware driver supporting Sun PCI-based (pci108e,5454) cryptographic accelerators,
       such as the Sun Crypto Accelerator 1000.

       The dca driver requires the presence of	Solaris Cryptographic Framework for applications and kernel clients to access  the  provided  ser-
       vices.

EXTENDED DESCRIPTION

       The dca driver maintains the following statistics:

       3desjobs        Total number of jobs submitted to the device for 3DES encryption.

       3desbytes       Total number of bytes submitted to the device for 3DES encryption.

       rsapublic       Total number of jobs submitted to the device for RSA public key operations.

       rsaprivate      Total number of jobs submitted to the device for RSA private key operations.

       dsasign	       Total number of jobs submitted to the device for DSA signing.

       dsaverify       Total number of jobs submitted to the device for DSA verification.

       rngjobs	       Total number of jobs submitted for pure entropy generation.

       rngbytes        Total number of bytes of pure entropy requested from the device.

       rngsha1jobs     Total number of jobs submitted for entropy generation, with SHA-1 post-processing.

       rngsha1bytes    Total number of bytes of entropy requested from the device, with SHA-1 post-processing.

       Additional statistics may be supplied for Sun support personnel,  but are not useful to end users and are not documented here.

       The  dca driver can be configured by defining properties in /kernel/drv/dca.conf which override the default settings. The following proper-
       ties are supported:

       nostats	    Disables the generation of statistics. This property may be used to help prevent traffic analysis, but this may  inhibit  sup-
		    port personnel.

       rngdirect    Disables  the  SHA-1 post-processing of generated entropy. This may give "truer" random numbers, but it may also introduce the
		    risk of external biases influencing the distribution of generated random numbers.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Architecture		     |SPARC			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWdcar			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	     |Unstable			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

FILES

       /kernel/drv/dca.conf	  dca configuration file

       /kernel/drv/sparcv9/dca	  64-bit ELF kernel driver (SPARC)

       /kernel/drv/dca		  32-bit ELF kernel driver (x86)

       /kernel/drv/amd64/dca	  64-bit ELF kernel driver (AMD64)

SEE ALSO

       cryptoadm(1M), kstat(1M), prtconf(1M), driver.conf(4), attributes(5)

       Solaris Cryptographic Framework.

SunOS 5.11							    14 Aug 2005 							   dca(7D)

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