Welcome to user list of one of the finest OSes around! Firstly, I don't find too many namesakes in a niche list like this. So actually when I saw your signature, for a moment thought someone hacked my account!
> i won't go overboard and say that i'm an instant fan-boy, but > frankly, the system feels the same, yet quite different. I felt more or less the same when I switched from Linux 3 years back. My reason to switch was constant hassles with upgrades and administration I was facing with the Linux flavor I was using. [I still use Linux on some machines and do not particularly dislike it, though NetBSD became my preferred OS since then.] I tried FreeBSD and NetBSD when I was at the crossroads. NetBSD won in ease of installation and configuration. Despite having no background my installation was up and running in a matter of hour, including the download time, including wifi and all. I also like pkgsrc. I like it much more than ports. I also participated a bit by submitting patches to pkgsrc and contributing some ports in pkgsrc/wip. > in closing, thanks for gracious support i have received ever > since i started pestering the list with questions of a naive type. Share the same feelings about the list. Soon you'll see yourself being in the expert's role helping newer users.. Mayuresh.