Yep. Only special factors I can think of are VirtualBox guest additions and passphraseless sudo - though I don't recall any similar problems when I last had it on my laptop which had neither.
Also starting from console and not a display manager, because they're vile things that are almost as bad as splash/boot screens.
> I know their team is much smaller so it's just not feasible, but it's definitely something that would be greatly appreciated.
Very much so - the biggest thing I miss from the Debian world is unattended-upgrades. Maybe with some more commercial support..
> Is OpenBSD's MP-safe yet? I believe that's partly related to why FreeBSD's has ALTQ disabled
It's still under a big giant lock as far as I'm aware. They're also removing ALTQ in favour of a simpler framework: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140419151959
Under a regular user account? I even added my user to wheel and operator, and no go. I've helped a few people on forums.freebsd.org set up this pkla file, too.
> There are quarterly port branches now to give people more of a choice
The quarterly branches are definitely a step in the right direction, but still not really what I want. I want patches for Heartbleed and Shellshock, but without any software version number bumps. I know their team is much smaller so it's just not feasible, but it's definitely something that would be greatly appreciated.
> I just wish it were more actively maintained and kept at least vaguely in-sync with upstream.
Definitely. Is OpenBSD's MP-safe yet? I believe that's partly related to why FreeBSD's has ALTQ disabled (but it's hard to find good information on why that choice was made.)