When I was in college, there was a dude there in my class that was a bit older than I was at the time, and he had been a systems coder for years and was now getting his degree for Networking, and we used to have a blast. He had used actual paid through the ass for it versions of Unix and ..... Brilliant dude to say the least. I actually gave him a copy of Slackware Linux to setup at his home, and he was kind of like "I dunno man Unix is expensive and you're saying this is free?" and so at first he had some trepidation, but after installing it, he said to me how a video card wasn't supported and he slapped an old one in the case and it worked great. I found it funny though because I hadn't had any real experience with "paid for Unix" outside of wanting an SGI workstation SO badly, but I couldn't ever afford them.
I actually just saw my old FreeBSD 10.X CD Set today after digging through old stuff a few weeks ago
I'm a big fan of BSD in terms of the most stable shit I've ever used straight up.... I don't think I ever managed to crash FreeBSD despite me trying LOL.
You're good bro; Shit I have trouble sticking on topic in a lot of my posts haha.