[Fedora Women] fedora & ntfs

[Mary Ellen Foster]

On 01/10/06, patricia campbell <triciamontreal at gmail.com> wrote:
> Are there intentions to include ntfs kernel modules & tools in later
> releases ???   It is easy enough for experienced people to add them
> (see www.linux-ntfs.org).  However it probably stops a few from
> delving into linux any deeper.  Lets face it Windows is ubiquitous but
> costly most people would be happy with an alternative but they cannot
> drop their windows investments (knowledge & software) that easily.
> One small step for fedora ....

As far as I can tell, Fedora is never going to include ntfs support --
the Fedora legal group seems to have re-examined the issue in 2005 and
decided again that it definitely wouldn't be included:

    https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=65749#c24
    http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/FedoraLegalIssues (search for NTFS)

Aside from linux-ntfs.org, another way to install NTFS drivers on
Fedora is to add the yum repository at http://rpm.livna.org/ and do
"yum install kmod-ntfs". Also a great way to get other
"free-as-in-beer" things that Fedora won't ever include, like
nVidia/ATI graphics drivers and DVD-playing software. :)

MEF

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Mary Ellen Foster
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/