base 2 or base 10.

[Tom H]

> I note with some amusement that Slashdot and several other sites are
> alight with the news that Ubuntu are about to provide the option to
> display filesizes in base 10 or base 2.

> http://linux.slashdot.org/story/10/03/27/1451238/Ubuntu-Will-Switch-To-Base-10-File-Size-Units-In-Future-Release?art_pos=6

> Any positive or negative reactions to this from the users here? Moving
> the buttons from right to left caused some people pain - how do you
> feel about this "improvement" to the UI?

This is going to be far less contentious than the button move.

Both the article above and the Neowin one that it links to claim that
for most OSs 1 kB is 1024. I find that surprising because OS X 10.6
made the same proposed change last summer (use 1 kB as the default but
give the option to use 1 KiB) specifically because, for all other OSs,
1 kB is 1000. Maybe for Apple, "all other OSs" means Microsoft.

So, from 10.10 onwards, an OS X/Ubuntu disk will be the same size as
an MS one...