so has anybody outside of the masochistic enabled gcc 3.3 as the default/base
compiler yet? plus/minuses? issues?

compared to FreeBSD, information flow in NetBSD is best measured in geological
timescales. I'm expecting to be told we have a flag day coming up 'real soon
now' but I wouldn't like to say if thats in an eon, an era, or an epoch. 

-George