@ve3qbz we ran our isp's web services box (ftp/telnet/www/etc) on freebsd in the late 90s, and then i ran my home server on freebsd in the early 2000s, after fighting with slack and a few other linux distros for months
i honestly loved how rigid and organized it was. the only real nightmares i remember were make buildworld, and that was because it took 16 hours on my poor pentium 133