On Monday 02 October 2006 09:34, Mary Ellen Foster wrote: > > 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. :) > We're planning on evaluating this again. We'll be looking at whether or not the same patent protections that allowed the inclusion of Mono might also be able to allow us to include NTFS support. This will be entirely up to RH Legal and will be mostly behind closed doors, but at least it will be looked into again. -- Patrick "The N-Man" Barnes nman64@xxxxxxxxx http://www.n-man.com/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nman64 Have I been helpful? Rate my assistance! http://rate.affero.net/nman64/ --
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