On 01/10/06, patricia campbell <triciamontreal(a)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
--
Mary Ellen Foster
http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/mef/