What about {net|free|open}BSD?
Linux is what the chipset manufacturers target, it's what the router manufacturers ship, it's what most of the academics seem to turn to when they're not using a network simulator, and Linux seems to have the most active networking developers. The only compelling argument for BSDs is that pf.conf is more approachable than the Linux tools, but BSD advocates usually don't mention that it's because pf does a lot less than tc and the other Linux tools.
big business usually use their own network stack as stock bsd is at most suited for soho workloads