I prefer not to use these new prefixes, because the old ones only became confused due to the efforts of drive manufacturers. Who are perfectly capable (and equally financially motivated) of pulling the same trick with the new units, standards body or no. Also, the "ib" prefixes sound stupid. Furthermore, the "KiB" abbreviation wastes a lot more screen space than "K", while actually converying no additional useful information. Many programs use every available character in a nominal 80 column screen and would have to drop information, precision, or significantly change their display to use the "KiB" unit. Debian has approximately as small of a chance standarising this throughout the distribution as we do standadising the spelling of "colo[u]r" or "standardi[sz]e" throughout the distribution. (On the other hand, I am one of the minority of people in the world who still prefer imperial measures, so apply salt to taste.) (On the third hand, I am a proponent of binary or decimal time and date representations. Down with bases 12, 60, and 30+-1 !) -- see shy jo
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