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NTFS Now Supported in ReactOS LiveCD

posted by LaminatorX on Thursday November 06 2014, @01:54PM   Printer-friendly
from the native-support dept.

gewg_ writes:

From the WinBeta subforum of reboot.pro:

I'm Pierre Schweitzer, one of the ReactOS developers. This is a free operating system that aims to re-implement Windows, but this time with an open source license.

ReactOS now supports reading files from NTFS volume. This was a long awaited feature people were asking for. And here it is.

You can see what I'm talking about on the three pictures [included in the fine article].

 
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  • (Score: 2, Insightful) by pTamok on Thursday November 06 2014, @05:22PM

    by pTamok (3042) on Thursday November 06 2014, @05:22PM (#113572)

    This sounds like a good milestone. I'd hope ReactOS can shorten development by looking at the ntfs-3g sourcecode: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS-3G [wikipedia.org]

    It's a pity ReactOS doesn't get more support. I think a large number of people would be happy to have a WindowsXP replacement available that doesn't require an activation key and buying installation media from eBay. So many companies assume you have access to a 'Windows PC' when providing software, it would be nice to have an OS that is Windows API compliant, but didn't require sending money to Microsoft.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 06 2014, @08:54PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 06 2014, @08:54PM (#113653)

    IIRC they can't work from ms source even of it's freely available. The project goes to great lengths to reverse engineer the functionality in a manner that limits the chance of legal action.

    • (Score: 2) by caseih on Friday November 07 2014, @03:03AM

      by caseih (2744) on Friday November 07 2014, @03:03AM (#113725)

      Does ntfs 3g have Microsoft code in it? I have never heard that before.

    • (Score: 1) by In hydraulis on Friday November 07 2014, @03:09AM

      by In hydraulis (386) on Friday November 07 2014, @03:09AM (#113728)

      You misunderstand, no big deal.

      NTFS-3G is not MS source. Admittedly, it isn't unequivocally capital-F Free software, but MS has no claim to it.