The postage must be pricey :-)
Seriously, though, OS/2 hadn't floated through my brain. Now it has.
Hmm.
/me ponders.
I wonder if Novell do a hobbyist version of Netware?
Plan 9? Anyone used this in anger?
FreeBSD, I found, was annoying; its philosophy of "We only care about the base system, all the stuff you need to do real work is in ports and good luck with that" (this is why the very reason your computer exists, for example Exim, ends up in /usr/local) and getting it to work sensibly with anything resembling a modern graphics card is insane. Configuring sound requires a kernel rebuild. This is 2005, not 1995.