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Subject: Re: OT: UPS for FreeBSD
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Which explains the whole bioconversion / split battery schematic. I see. So
foit!

On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 5:11 PM, Perry Hutchison <perryh@pluto.rain.com>
wrote:

> Mike Starr <starrtennis@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I haven't thought too much about this either, but how much does
> > power supply have to do with which os one uses?
>
> If you are only using the UPS to cover for outages from momentary
> up to a few seconds, not much.
>
> However, if you want the UPS to notify the OS when the battery
> starts to get low, so that the OS can shut down cleanly, you need
> for the OS to support whatever communication mechanism the UPS
> provides.
>