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  1. Re:nice to see this progress but by Laur · · Score: 1 · on ReactOS 0.3.1 Released
    Thought I'd challenge a few of your points about why you'd choose ReactOS over Linux+Wine.

    Drivers. How well does WINE load that WinXP dll/ocx driver for your WiFi card? Display driver? etc.
    Wine doesn't load your Windows drivers, but maybe Linux can. Have you heard of projects like NdisWrapper? Of course, running binary drivers in ReactOS will also have the same issues as running binary drivers in Linux, see the continuing debate on this topic.

    Performance. Compatibility layer on top of another OS is never going to be as fast.
    Do you have any proof of this? Just saying it doesn't make it so. There have long been reports of programs running faster in Wine than on actual Windows. My understanding is that Wine is just an API, such as QT or GTK, and there's really no technical reason that it should perform slower than other APIs.

    Interface. Everything is in the same place. If you know how to use Windows, running apps, and changing settings in ReactOS is very, very similar. No matter how similar KDE may look to Windows, it doesn't work anything like it.
    An some would say that that's a good thing! However, this is a valid point, although it is useful to point out that MS changes the interface between major versions of Windows. Just because you know how XP works doesn't mean that you won't be lost on Vista.

    Filesystems. Most systems may have FAT32 compatibility, but if you start using it for heavy tasks, the limitations and incompatibilities really come to the surface.
    I have no idea what you are saying here, Linux has far broader filesystem support than ReactOS. Currently ReactOS only supports FAT32, while Linux can run NTFS with read/write support (check out NTFS-3G.
  2. Re:well by Nasarius · · Score: 4, Informative · on Samsung Ships Hybrid Hard Drives

    Linux must get full support for NTFS.
    *tap tap* ntfs-3g -- I'm using it now, and it's performing nicely even under pretty heavy BitTorrent load. ntfs.fsck still needs to be written, but the situation is now vastly better than it was less than a year ago.
  3. Re:Get what you pay for -- free email hosting from by yoyhed · · Score: 1 · on University Migrating Students to Windows Live Mail?

    Try ntfs-3g. Full read/write support, and it just came out of beta to production status. More than decent, I've been using it without any problems for a while :-)

  4. Re:Patentless by flyingfsck · · Score: 0, Offtopic · on Cheap, Safe, Patentless Cancer Drug Discovered

    BTW, Linux has full support for NTFS: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/

  5. Re:Doh. mount_ntfs is already there by irgu · · Score: 5, Informative · on FUSE Port Brings NTFS Support To OS X

    Mount_ntfs doesn't have full read/write possibility. NTFS-3G has and it's commonly used on Linux.

  6. Precompiled read/write NTFS packages by irgu · · Score: 5, Informative · on FUSE Port Brings NTFS Support To OS X

    The original NTFS-3G source code doesn't compile on Mac OS X without some changes but the MacFUSE and NTFS-3G precompiled packages are available from IUseThis.

  7. Re:90% market share? by Nasarius · · Score: 1 · on Microsoft Gets Help From NSA for Vista Security

    Screw the Office and filesystem formats, those have been mostly reverse engineered. What they could do is publish complete API documentation, so it doesn't take Wine years to catch up.

  8. Re:ZFS vs HFS vs NTFS? by irgu · · Score: 1 · on ZFS Shows Up in New Leopard Build

    ntfs-3g has stable write for months. Many distro use it already: http://ntfs-3g.org/
    It's also open source, so you can learn from it as you wished ;-)

  9. Safe read/write NTFS is available for months by irgu · · Score: 1 · on Novell Responds To Microsoft's IP Claims

    It's called NTFS-3G: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ The documentation is the binary ntfs driver, chkdsk and the NTFS on-disk file format one can find on any Windows box. These are the *REAL* documentation, which are *MUCH* detailed than any technical specification could ever be.

  10. Re:Give Novell a Break by rastos1 · · Score: 1 · on Novell Responds To Microsoft's IP Claims
    > > if we had documentation on how NTFS lays out the filesystem we'd have a safe r/w driver in under a month.
    >Such as say, http://www.ntfs-3g.org/?

    Just like that. Only it would not have to be reverse-engineered and it would not be beta. (Though I appreciate the ntfs-3g team work very much.)

  11. Re:Give Novell a Break by ivan+kk · · Score: 2, Informative · on Novell Responds To Microsoft's IP Claims

    if we had documentation on how NTFS lays out the filesystem we'd have a safe r/w driver in under a month.

    Such as say, http://www.ntfs-3g.org/?

  12. Re:I disagree on this remark: by Lorkki · · Score: 1 · on Rootkit Could Hide In PCI Cards
    I couldn't switch completely to Linux since I have about 50 gig of data on HDb that Mandrake 10.1 can't access (thinks subdirectories are files, thanks to Microsoft who automatically converted FAT32 to some other file system), so I'm dual boot; Windows for audio (50 gb of MP3s) and Linux for the internet.

    Either your Mandrake installation has an extremely old NTFS driver, is misconfigured in some way, or the subdirectories are encrypted or compressed. NTFS read support for Linux has been around for quite some time - even full read-write support exists now and seems to work fine, although it's slow.

  13. Re:NTFS support by Ash-Fox · · Score: 1 · on Novell Gets $348 Million From Microsoft
    Does this mean someones finally going to get NTFS working in linux?
    No, because it's already working. Alternatively some people like these methods of accessing NTFS.
  14. Re:NTFS support by irgu · · Score: 3, Informative · on Novell Gets $348 Million From Microsoft

    NTFS-3G has full read-write, open source NTFS support for a few months: http://www.ntfs-3g.org/ Fedora Extra, Debian, Ubuntu and many others have it already.