On Sunday 17 June 2007 16:19, S Glasoe wrote:
On Saturday June 16 2007 4:28:00 pm Alexey Eremenko wrote:
hi all !
I'm thinking - would it be possible to install openSUSE on NTFS partition, to prevent repartitioning, so more Windows users will be able to try out SUSE Linux ?
#1 reason this won't happen anytime soon is because Microsoft does _not_ publish the specifications for NTFS and would only share them with companies that are willing to pay extremely large amounts of money on a continuing basis with all kinds of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) in place. These companies would most likely have to pay a royalty/license fee for every product sold that utilized this knowledge too.
That's true, but any technology that's not potted in epoxy can be reverse-engineered. Presumably that's what the NTFS-3G team (http://www.ntfs-3g.org/) did, since it apparently works well for both reading and writing NTFS volumes from Linux (and other OSes).
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-- Stan
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