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EU state rules - Microsoft CAN own patent for FAT long filenames!
Lead Head:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and saying that your average Mac user is probably no more of a power user then your average Windows user, which may explain why there is so little interest in supporting what are primarily *nix file systems.
The percentage of people who have a combination of Windows and Linux systems at home or dual boot Windows and Linux (this is where that ext2 driver comes in real handy) is probably much much greater then those that have Linux and OSX systems.
Kintaro:
--- Quote from: piratePenguin on 12 May 2010, 05:34 ---
--- Quote from: Kintaro on 11 May 2010, 23:44 ---If only it were this easy on OSX ay: http://fs-driver.org/
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Kinda ridiculous that it isn't.
NOBODY in the OS X world decided to make an EXT2 driver, and not charge money for it? If that is true I'm making this official: Apple users, they are the scum of the computer world.
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Man it would be a human rights violations for people who toil on such shoddy development environments to not get paid for their work.
Of course, for things like ext2/ext3 they could stop being fucking faggots and just merge some of the FreeBSD 8.0 crap over. Do you even get ndis network drivers on OSX?
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: Lead Head on 12 May 2010, 06:40 ---I'm going to go out on a limb here and saying that your average Mac user is probably no more of a power user then your average Windows user, which may explain why there is so little interest in supporting what are primarily *nix file systems.
The percentage of people who have a combination of Windows and Linux systems at home or dual boot Windows and Linux (this is where that ext2 driver comes in real handy) is probably much much greater then those that have Linux and OSX systems.
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That's true, but would you not also think the ethos of Apple trickles down to the Apple population, making them greedy? :D
(sounds outrageous but this is not all joking: you must believe there is a correlation that influences gnu/linux distribution users to help their community more than Apple/MS users would be influenced)
Now theres a reason to keep Apple out of your home, if ever there was one.
Kintaro:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/ext2fsx/
Found this, ext3 is backward compatible with ext2.
Lead Head:
So an ext2 driver can access an ext3 volume, minus ext3s new fancy features?
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