gore,

I liked FreeBSD in the 4.x days. A pain to set up, but you only needed to do it once! Setting up the X driver timings manually was interesting, but I'm glad we don't have to do that any more. Amazingly, even the laptop sound card worked. Maybe I was lucky!

I'm in the middle of setting up OpenBSD on my firewall. For some reason (at least to me) it seems to work better "out of the box" than either Free- or NetBSD. Install isn't as friendly, though.