Subject: Re: fedora official ntfs support

[Gene Delitzoy]

There is also something to consider, redhat has always been really good
about their products being open source (imo). This results in stuff like
whiteboxlinux, Fedora, pink tie, etc.
The downside is mp3 support, ntfs support and other non free software.
Cant complain about one side while getting the benefit of the other
side.



On Thu, 2004-01-15 at 10:42, Benjamin J. Weiss wrote:
> From: "Szakacsits Szabolcs" <szaka at sienet.hu>
> > On Thu, 15 Jan 2004, Emmanuel Seyman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jan 15, 2004 at 05:31:34AM -0800, David Jackson wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Does any Linux Distro Support NTFS?
> > >
> > > I believe Mandrake ships their kernel with ntfs enabled.
> >
> > Mandrake also imports stuff, e.g. fonts from NTFS, automatically (or
> > optionally custom) repartition NTFS during Linux install for almost a
> > year. Since October SUSE can do these also.
> 
> IIRC, Mandrake is based in France and is therefore not subject to U.S. law.
> 
> IIRC, Suse is a German company, and until the acquisition by Novell is
> complete, is also not subject to U.S. law.  I imagine that Suse may no
> longer be able to do these things out of the box once the acquisition is
> complete.  Then again, I am neither a lawyer nor a prophet. :)
> 
> Ben