Freebsd is pretty nice, mostly for ports and simplicity reasons. I would use freebsd over linux on my computer if the boot disk would work with my usb keyboard

Freebsd is pretty nice, mostly for ports and simplicity reasons. I would use freebsd over linux on my computer if the boot disk would work with my usb keyboard and usb mouse... and if matlab were native, I don't know if it is my nforce chipset or some other weird thing but it works fine if the usb peripherals are unplugged.