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Using the Real ntfs.sys Driver Under Linux

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the some-serious-duct-tape dept.

caseih writes "A very neat hack uses the real ntfs.sys driver (obtained from your own windows XP partition and used via a wine-like layer (borrowed from ReactOS) to mount an ntfs partion with full read/write access. While not an ideal solution and certainly not free as in speech, this is an ideal stop-gap measure for many people trying out linux. I think that we'll probably see this in Knoppix pretty soon."

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  1. GPL loophole by deanpole · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A loophole in the GPL is becomming increasingly clear, making the LGPL and GPL equivalent. Use two separate groups of developers. The first builds proprietary code with an incompatible ABI. The second modifies the GPL code to mate with the proprietary one.