[lubuntu-users] 19.4 installer has 8gig minimum disk requirement

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Thu, 2019-04-25 at 10:07 +0200, Liam Proven wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Apr 2019 at 08:19, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net> wrote:
> 
> > It's paradox to claim that a device is capable of 16 G, 32 G, 64 G,
> > 128 G, 256 G, 512 G, 1024 G etc. if "G" isn't base 2, since those values
> > imply base 2.
> 
> Nah.
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_prefix
> 
> Kibi, Mebi, Gibi...

You are missing the point. It doesn't matter if you call it "GB" or
"GiB".

A "G" in combination with devices that are capable of 16 G, 32 G, 64 G,
128 G, 256 G, 512 G, 1024 G, based on the architectural principle
implies base 2.

We do not have 128 USD and 128 EUR bank notes.
We   do   have 100 USD and 100 EUR bank notes.

We could have  128 USD and 128 EUR bank notes, but it would be against
common sense, since there's no good reason to chose this for bank notes.

Selling a device that is advertised with "128 G" should be capable of
128 GiB, technically anything else doesn't make sense.

A file manager, a display showing free RAM space etc. using GB instead
of GiB is useless, since it doesn't show rational values. To estimate if
you could download another 1000 illegal charts MP3s, it might be good
enough, for serious computer usage only GiB is the right choice.

"Base 10 (decimal)

    1 GB = 1000000000 bytes (= 10003 B = 109 B)

Based on powers of 10, this definition uses the prefix giga- as defined
in the International System of Units (SI). This is the recommended
definition by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).
This definition is used in networking contexts and most storage media,
particularly hard drives, flash-based storage, and DVDs, and is also
consistent with the other uses of the SI prefix in computing, such as
CPU clock speeds or measures of performance. The file manager of Mac OS
X version 10.6 and later versions are a notable example of this usage in
software, which report files sizes in decimal units.

Base 2 (binary)

    1 GiB = 1073741824 bytes (= 10243 B = 230 B).

The binary definition uses powers of the base 2, as does the
architectural principle of binary computers. This usage is widely
promulgated by some operating systems, such as Microsoft Windows in
reference to computer memory (e.g., RAM). This definition is synonymous
with the unambiguous unit gibibyte." - 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gigabyte#Definition