There is another…

(There are dozens of us, I swear)

slackware catching some flak there

Cluster computing. DragonflyBSD is structured entirely with a multiprocessing design philosophy, gives amazing cache coherency in Beowulf clusters thanks to the way the scheduler works.

Bit of a niche use case, but if you’re doing gpu-unfriendly parallel compute operations like bidirectional path tracing or finite element analysis it really shines.

Nothing has driven my desire to learn physics more than the urge to get rid of all the randomness in it. It’s bloody irksome.