[Randux]

I ran a "laptop from hell" with OpenBSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD, and Solaris just to say I did it.

I learned a lot (but not nearly enough) about the first three and still can't figure out Solaris' file structure. Depending on what platform you use, you may find that most things you want and I don't mean just huge stuff like JRE just doesn't have a binary package. I built virtually everything from source on NetBSD. Pkgsrc is fantastic.