wblock@ said:
0. Ask the vendors of these commercial packages, who have received money from me, are the most responsible for supporting their own products, and have released FreeBSD packages in the past, to update their current packages to the new format. Or clarify whether they will no longer be supporting FreeBSD, so I can tell associates to avoid them.
You keep harping this and it is
not helping. In an ideal world, this would be the way to go. In the real word, it just doesn't happen that way. If a hardware is considered "legacy", sometimes as quickly as three years after release, there will be no new drivers. You either make the ones you have work, stay with an older OS version or throw out the hardware.