[sf-lug] Ubuntu implements units policy, will switch to base-10 units in future release]

[Bobbie Sellers]

    Jim would like you all to see this

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Subject: 	[TAML-WNT] Ubuntu implements units policy, will switch to 
base-10 units in future release
Date: 	Sun, 28 Mar 2010 00:02:17 +0100
From: 	Odd Sanvik
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"Ubuntu's future 10.10 operating system is going to make a small, but
contentious change to how file sizes are represented. Like most other
operating systems using binary prefixes, Ubuntu currently represents 1
kB (kilobyte) as 1024 bytes (base-2). But starting with 10.10, a switch
to SI prefixes (base-10) will denote 1 kB as 1000 bytes, 1 MB as 1000
kB, 1 GB as 1000 MB, and so on."

http://www.neowin.net/news/ubuntu-implements-units-policy-will-switch-to-base-10-units-in-future-release

Contentious, really ?? LOL.

-- 
Odd H. Sandvik

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