Alpha 1 - Manifest?

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 05:56:34AM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> Steve Langasek [2012-06-04 12:37 -0700]:
> > Anyway, I bring this up because the hallway discussion at the latest UDS
> > seemed to converge on 750MiB (== 786MB) for the image size for 12.10

> Ah, ok; sorry, then I misremembered.

> > The question is, over the long term does it make more sense to have images
> > sized in MiB or MB?  Is a 1GB USB stick really 1GB, or is it 1GiB?

> I checked the 4 USB Sticks that I have, as a random sample. Their
> sizes are:

>  63.0 MiB == 66.1 MB
>  981 MiB == 1028.6 MB
>  7.5 GiB == 8.0 GB
>  29.9 GiB == 32.1 GB

> So except for the really really old 64 MB one, the others are in GB,
> not GiB.

Ok, I think that's a sufficient tie breaker and we should go with 800MB. 
I've updated the blueprint whiteboard to confirm this.

Thanks,
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Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
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