This is how it goes, ladies and gents in the world of computers and human sciences.
Let's layout the tools for the psychologists and sociologists.
Now for the OS part.
For the learning and experiment processes, it is better to use a PowerPC64/ POWER machine running Debian for the Intermediate and the layperson doing statistical and psychological analyses.
The Linux kernel maxes out at 1kHz.
If you need a quicker reaction time and less latency, use FreeBSD on a PowerPC64/ POWER machine with a kernel Hertz rate of 2.499 kHz.
For some reason, at 2.5kHz and above, the kernel and system latency/ reaction time slows down.
There was an older mailing list post on this.
I had done this on a PowerMac G3 with a 400MHz PowerPC CPU AMD 512 MB of ram.
The modern POWER systems should be able to run a kern.hz rate of 2000 with little to no problem.
The data can be collected and stored for later access on a UltraSPARC/ SPARC64 machine running Gentoo Linux or OpenBSD.
By the way, there is the SiLo loader from the Gentoo project which would allow a dual boot of both systems.
In other words, you could have the same setup on similar machines with each running a different OS.
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