After a brief break from BSD, I had to return for more. FreeBSD is certainly one of the more popular BSDs.
Many testimonials talk of extremely fast networking, combined with super uptimes.
Other accomplishments include being used to render some of the special effects in The Matrix. I dreaded the thought of attempting an FTP install over my 56K modem, so I scoured the 'net for a CD-R ISO image. Within moments, I found that the FreeBSD team had created official images and they were readily available on most of the mirror sites. There were some problems with a couple of the KDE programs which still had some Linuxisms, but all in all everything fit together well. I immediately dropped into an Xterm to explore deeper.