I'm sorry you're being downvoted - it seems to be a question in good faith, there isn't a singular, obvious answer, and I think you'll get some good answers. F

I'm sorry you're being downvoted - it seems to be a question in good faith, there isn't a singular, obvious answer, and I think you'll get some good answers. For me, I use it for things that I want to be simple or unencumbered from licensing. Any sort of storage server in my house gets FreeBSD almost automatically. OpenBSD, I keep around mainly as a learning experience - it's really a simple, well-documented operating system, and it works flawlessly on a number of different Thinkpads. There are also plenty of opportunities to participate in the development of the OS itself or its packages.