From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 26 10:25:57 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from yellow.rahul.net (yellow.rahul.net [192.160.13.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47F3937B422 for ; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:25:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: by yellow.rahul.net (Postfix, from userid 104) id BF7777DF6; Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:25:54 -0700 (PDT) To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Freebsd vs. UPS Newsgroups: a2i.lists.freebsd-stable References: X-Newsreader: NN version 6.5.6 (NOV) Message-Id: <20000926172554.BF7777DF6@yellow.rahul.net> Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 10:25:54 -0700 (PDT) From: dhesi@rahul.net (Rahul Dhesi) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I recommend against APC UPSs for three reasons: short battery life, poor quality control (sometimes they fail after 2-3 months of use), and refusal to provide specifications for control of the UPS (thus no support for open software). In this world of open software, the third factor above should be considered very strongly. -- Rahul To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message