Ubuntu Will Switch To Base-10 File Size Units In Future Release

[L.C.]

Source: http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/27/1451238/Ubuntu-Will-Switch-To-Base-10-File-Size-Units-In-Future-Release

CyberDragon777 writes

"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."

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Why the heck would they do that? Besides easier calculations and shorthands.

[BDwinsAlt]

There should definitely be an option for how you want to do be displayed. I don't like base 10 though.

[MikeTheNose]

That's just silly.

[whalz]

SIMPLICITY!

 

however much i dont care, if they simplify it.. at least .. well at least its simpler

 

 

 

perhaps with this update, it will spur more of the same, bringing the basics all simpler and leaving room for the advanced and unknown!

 

progress at its finest right here

[Samapico]

The thing is it will be much more confusing.... Insert your USB thumb drive in one machine, you get X / 1.024^3 GBs, then insert it in your ubuntu machine, and you have X GBs... And all the files will have different file size than expected.

 

 

It could almost be an April's Fool.

 

But to be honest, I don't care about Linux

[MikeTheNose]

Anyone who uses Ubuntu SHOULD understand file sizes.

[BDwinsAlt]

Anyone who uses Ubuntu SHOULD understand file sizes.

Dell ships it out with certain computers now, so somebody may want to try Ubuntu instead of Windows. It's really stupid-friendly for a Linux distro.