Sharing files between Ubuntu 6.06 and Windows XP Pro - best disk format to use

John L Fjellstad john-ubuntu at fjellstad.org
Mon Feb 5 08:02:41 UTC 2007


Yagnesh Desai <ynd at lntenc.com> writes:

> BTW one of the reason M$ coming out with NTFS is that Linux started
> seamlessly w/r to FAT32. Else they would have even continued throwing
> FAT32 (SX@#%@) at M$ faithful client.

Oh, please.  

According to Wikipedia, NTFS got released in July 1993 with Windows NT
3.1 (first version of NT)[1].  At that point, Linus hadn't even released
1.0 of the linux kernel[2]. 

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel

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