FreeBSD 16792
I used it on my home machine for a couple of years. They have automatic bulk builds of all of the ports, the system is stable, the hardware support is pretty good, the filesystem is robust, very fast with soft-updates.
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There almost aren't any problems, from my experience. Things work as advertised, the documentation is accurate and centralized. It's a very nice system.
The only real downshot, from my perspective, compared to Linux, is that you have to configure just about *everything* by hand. X, your MTA, every application you download, font servers. The ports tree of applications makes sure that your applications compile, but that's about it. The changes from the upstream distributor are minimal, as a policy, so you're not getting a version of the package that has been audited for security, modified for consistency with the system, or anything else. It gets tiresome. Very tiresome.
The short version: everything just works, and works really well, and works as advertised, and is well-documented (all of this more so than Linux, in my experience), but it's management intensive.
I use Linux on my personal computer, but it's FreeBSD and OpenBSD for the servers.
Hi! From time to time X does heavily load the CPU. I do have the problem on two very different machines...
-- Adam Fabian
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