[sndman]

This is a really good article. I've enjoyed freebsd on older hardware for since 4.x days.

One of the most satisfyung aspects of FreeBSD (really all the BSDs) is the ability to rebuild the "world". Rebuild as in recompile the entire OS and userland tools. It comes with the installed OS.

Is there even a linux distro that does something similar?

[valbaca]

Gentoo or Linux From Scratch

[Koshkin]

Not sure why I would want to do that though, from a practical standpoint.