What's your favorite BSD Flavor?
 

Of course I run NetBSD! :p

[firewall/gateway] NetBSD 2.0/i386
Compaq/486
4x 8MB SIMMS EDO = 32MB - mem
Pentium 100Mhz
1.3GB HD
2x 3Com nics

[workstation-1] NetBSD 4.0/i386
Dell Dimension 2200
128MB - mem
Celeron 1.30Ghz
20GB
Netgear nic

[workstation-2] NetBSD 4.0/i386
Soyo P4VDA(motherboard)
Celeron 1.8Ghz
100GB HD
1GB ram - mem
Nivda TNT2 M-64-AGP 32MB

[laptop]Slackware 11/NetBSD 3.1/i386 dual boot
Compaq Presario 1260
AMD K6-2 333 MHz
64 MB - mem
4 GB HD
NeoMagic MagicGraph 128XD
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Post what hardware you run your flavor of *BSD on!

FreeBSD followed closely by NetBSD.

seeing as i have only used FreeBSD i would have to vote for that :)

FreeBSD all the way!

I used to run a gateway/firewall with freeBSD up until about a year ago when I purchased a hardware appliance to handle that. I now have a freeBSD machine running on vmware as a mail server (6.2). I also had a triple booted laptop that had freeBSD 5 until recently.

I've been using FreeBSD since 2.21-Release, but nowadays I prefer OpenBSD.
I still have 6.2 and 5.5 on two systems.

if posting to this thread, please provide the hardware that it's running on.
This could prove to be useful for someone that wondering if BSD would run on certain hardware

freebsd hardware:
http://bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=129
http://bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=152
http://bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=12015
http://bsdforums.org/forums/showthread.php?t=15439
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/6.3R/hardware.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/7.0R/hardware.html

OpenBSD is what I use on a server. I manage my OpenBSD boxes with my Mac running OSX.

I second that :). I used FreeBSD a lot a work, and NetBSD at home on some old boxes ^_^;

im giving pc bsd a go :p

You miss DesktopBSD in the poll [ http://desktopbsd.net ]

I clicked in figuring I would vote for OpenBSD, but then Mac OS X was on the list. What could I do?

I use OpenBSD for firewalls, bridges and routers on our network.

I have been a Mac user since 1985, and my home computers and desktop are all Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard. I manage all our servers, network equipment, etc. from my Mac. Our main servers are Solaris 9. We also have some massively parallel SGI compute servers that are running Suse.

Some weird stats.

Hope you guys submit your machine info to http://bsdstats.org/

FreeBSD6.2 amd64

[Athlon64 X2 6000+, 4GB Ram, 720GB HD, 3Com Nic, Nvidia 7600 GT]

Thanks for bringing this to my attention I forgot all about desktopbsd.

OpenBSD is the way to go.
Running it on my server and my laptops.

I run only free software on my desktop, and I am using a Dell Dimension 4100. I have used FreeBSD in the past. It works fine, but compared to the Linux distros I use, it can be a challenge to install. On the contrary, PC-BSD slips right in, I can use FreeBSD ports, so i have everything I need. Therefore, for desktop use, PC-BSD, definitely. I have also used DesktopBSD and FreeSBIE. PC-BSD is tracking my needs a bit better at the moment. All of 'em are good, PC-BSD just suits my needs a bit better right now.

Most of the time I run desktop Debian GNU/Linux software - my latest version is sidux, a variation that smooths out the bumps in Debian Sid and provides bleeding edge software that works great for me.

From the BSDs, OBSD suits me best.
I run it on an old athlon.

When I had a bsd, other than a Mac OS X, I ran FreeBSD, which I find is very user friendly.

[Database/webserver/firewall] FreeBSD 6.2/i386
Dell Precision 410
2 x 128MB = 256MB - mem
2 x Pentium 400MHz
2 x 18GB HD
1 x Via, 1 x 3Com, 1 x Netgear NICs

[External Snort Server] NetBSD 3.0.1/i386
Dell Precision 220
128MB - mem
Pentium 800MHz
10GB HD
3 x 3Com (two bridged and connected to an ethernet tap, one for mgt interface)

[Internal Snort Server] OpenBSD 3.8/i386
Homebuilt (Pine motherboard)
Pentium 200MHz
4.3GB HD
196MB ram - mem
1 x Via, 1 x 3Com
S3 Virge-PCI 8MB

[Workstation] Mac OS X v10.4.11
PowerMac G4
2 x 533MHz
60GB HD
1 GB RAM - mem

[Notebook] Mac OS X v10.4.11
Macbook 13.3" glossy
Pentium 2GHz CoreDuo
768 MB - mem
80 GB HD

I've several other *nix machines:

1 laptop dedicated to Slackware
1 laptop dual-booting XP and Slackware
1 1U to replace that will run 3 Snort sensors on different net segments, running Slackware

Well I haven't got a lot of BSD experience (read that none!) been a Slackware guy for many years now but decided to take the BSD plunge. Dove right in and installed OpenBSD on a spare HD. I'll be playing and learning. Should be fun!

I switched from Slackware too. I couldn't believe how 'easy' OpenBSD was compared to Linux. Everything just works... or won't work at all :)

Nice. There's something to be said for decisive victories and failures.

My favorite is FreeBSD, but I haven't ever tried Open, and I've only dabbled a little in Net. So take that for what it's worth. It is very difficult to leave a fantastic OS, and I feel like there is always something new to learn with Free.

I installed v1.4 of PC-BSD on a free partition of my laptop recently, and I was impressed how smooth the install was. That being said, I prefer Gnome to KDE, so I am sticking with Ubuntu for now on my laptop. Aside from that I run FreeBSD on a home gateway/firewall/server/WAP, and it has been a great experience.