[ A few questions

A few questions have come to me recently, in no particular order of importance.

1. Does anyone run NetBSD? Does  pkgin upgrade  run really, really slow? I used
a local mirror but DLing 700 packages took an entire day.

2. If you run scripts, how many do you run? I have upwards of 10 running each
night/early morning, which seems like quite a lot.

3. What's a good way to start golf? Lessons? The WWW is divided in its advice.