Thursday, August 27, 2009

Pingie: HTTP:: exFAT for Embedded Systems Comes to Linux from Tuxera

HTTP:: exFAT for Embedded Systems Comes to Linux from Tuxera
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Tuxera exFAT for Embedded Systems will be made available for the open-source Linux operating system as a result of an intellectual property agreement between Tuxera and Microsoft. Helsinki-based Tuxera revealed that, after more than a year of preparation and three days of intense negotiations with Microsoft, it entered an Intellectual Property Agreement with the Redmond company, but also joined the software giant’s exFAT Program. Tuxera is a file system provider founded by the open-source NTFS project NTFS-3G, and because of the IP deal inked with Microsoft it is now the first independent software vendor to deliver exFAT drivers. “We are looking forward to working with an increasing number of OEM customers. Adding exFAT into our existing NTFS product portfolio is the logical step to help our customers solve any interoperable file system need they have,” revealed Szabolcs Szakacsits, Tuxera CTO and the founder of NTFS-3G. Microsoft developed the Extended File Allocat!
ion Table (exFAT) as a file system designed to play nice with both large storage devices and large files. Operating systems from the Redmond company such as Windows Vista SP1 and later feature exFAT support by default. Microsoft informed that among the main benefits of the file system is the fact that it can deal with...
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