Journal slothman32's Journal: linux without standardly using mebibyte 1
Are there any linux varities that use megabyte as the common/usual 2^20 bytes?
I heard that several, possibly Ubuntu(sp) doesn't and uses 10^6 instead.
I want to try some things out but I don't want that weirdness involved.
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Don't know if Canonical changes things, but on my Debian, I fired up Konq, and it specifically uses KiB, MiB, etc. LS reports in bytes unless otherwise specified (only -l with --si will produce SI (powers of 10) units). Not sure about Nautilus.
In general, I find that an awful lot of Linux software explicitly uses the IEC (binary) unit identifiers instead of the now potentially ambiguous SI identifiers.