Thanks for outlining the installation of FreeBSD. I tried it out this weekend and am kind of surprised, a lot of stuff is available via pkg. Wi-Fi and touchpad didn't work out of the gate but I don't care. My only criticism is that the GUI setup program, like in Slackware, is really not worth it. Setting up Archlinux is just as easy, but because you apply your decisions at set-up in mostly the same way you do any other day, you just learn more about your system. I'm glad I have it installed so I can piddle around with it.