[FreeBSD-Announce] FreeBSD 12.0 end-of-life

[Jerry]

On Wed, 19 Feb 2020 11:31:18 -0500, Ed Maste stated:
>That's an unfortunate issue, but it's very hard to make progress
>without getting an affected machine to an appropriate developer.

Personally, Ed, I think your suggestion is absurd. For years I heard
the often-repeated statement, “Lock-In,” when referring to MS Products.
The far more common, though less mentioned statement of, “Locked Out”
was conveniently bypassed. I cannot begin to tell you how many times I
wanted to use a piece of equipment or advanced technology but was not
able to do so when outside an MS environment.

Now, I find that FBSD 12.x will not even install and run on my PC. This
cannot be because the technology is too new. 11.x runs just fine. This
is obviously a problem with the programming. I have been told by you
and others that they need a machine to work on to discover the problem.
Seriously, that is BS. It worked before; they broke it when updating.
If it had never worked, I might have considered donating a piece of
equipment to assist them, but this is obviously not that sort of
problem.

I have consulted Dell, including a voice conversation with a
technician. He, himself, said that he uses Linux on one of his
machines. They have never received a problem like I am experiencing on
any other OS other then FBSD.

I have confidence that the problem will be fixed eventually, either
when the problem has evolved to be a nuisance to a much larger audience
or by dumb luck. In either case, since it did once work, it is
obviously not beyond the scope of the engineers to correct the problem.

-- 
Jerry