Less bloat is one of the main reasons I love NetBSD.  You can put the
entire distribution, including compilers and kernel source, in less
than 100 meg of disk space.

I had the misfortune of having to install a RedHat Linux system the
other day.  I know they mean well, but the utter lack of taste and
discretion really get to me sometimes:

No C shell.  Yup, call me a fogey, but I actually use the good old
fashioned basic C shell.  Just try finding a C shell for a Linux
system.  RedHat will be happy to give you something it *calls* csh,
but which is really a link to tcsh, csh's obese and feature-laden
grandnephew.

No flippin' vi!  Linux systems all want to give you "Vi IMpaired"
instead, which is a vi clone on some serious steroids and a gram of
coke with delusions of being emacs.

And that's not to mention little garish touches here and there, like
"color ls".  More unnecessary baggage we really don't need in a
grownup's operating system.

NetBSD is an operating system whose maintainers understand that what
you leave out is at least as important as what you include.

-- 
Mirian Crzig Lennox                                Systems Anarchist
  "Don't follow leaders... watch the parking meters."  --Bob Dylan