FWIW, checkout of these things took 5+hrs, staying on the local
.freebsd.org net w/o hitting the 'net at all.
As promised,
$ time cvs ci
real 67m51.701s
user 0m1.250s
sys 0m5.345s
Among other things, it has pretty much got native FreeBSD support, does not
core dump on ^C, some sync problems, uid/gid caching fixes, symlink detection
problems, portability to new platforms..