Real NTFS support in Linux!

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Real NTFS support in Linux!

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<!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.jankratochvil.net/project/captive/">This linux project</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> seems to be the first one to really allow full file-system operations in Linux on an NTFS partition. Previously you could get libraries to read NTFS files and directories, but writing was iffy at best. This project does it by actually using MSoft's own NTFS library, and emulating certain parts of the Windows kernel for it. So it sounds pretty safe.<br>Combined with something like <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://www.transgaming.com/">Transgaming's WineX</a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> so that you can play even late-model Windows games under Linux, this is going to make smoothly transitioning to Linux WAY easier.<br><br>Yay Penguin Power! <p><!--EZCODE IMAGE START--><img src="http://www.xmenclan.org/xmengambit.gif"/><!--EZCODE IMAGE END--><br>XMEN member<br>Card-carrying DTM<br>OKL Fish-napper<br><br>Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained.<br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em> The Tao of Programming</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--></p><i></i>
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