Free software exFAT support hits stable release
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For removable drives and SSDs, F2FS won't see broad adoption for a little bit and the jury is still out if Apple or Microsoft includes it in their operating systems. I'm still gunning for that to get wide support and we shall see if Samsung can pull it off.
Another format for removable devices I have seen lately is exFAT, which was released along the time of Windows Vista and even though it is patent encumbered out the wazoo, it has been cropping up lately on devices and even Apple's latest OSX operating system.
With that in mind, I noticed that a GPLv3 licensed free software implementation of exFAT was released for GNU/Linux and a stable version for your Trisquel version can be downloaded at https://launchpad.net/~relan/+archive/exfat
It is part of the "fuse" branch which I believe brought over NTFS to GNU/Linux and I am wondering if it worth installing. It sucks that Microsoft pushes their implementations on everything besides their operating systems, but any type of support is good in the rare chance that we run across it. Kinda like RAR v3 that now has free support thanks to unar.
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> I am wondering if it worth installing.
If you have need to access exFAT formatted drives, then I'd say yes.
Hmm that is what you look like. I always pictured you as like a youthful surfer type due with blonde hair and in his early 20s who skateboards and plays Call of Duty.
> and plays Call of Duty.
I can't imagine a GNU webmaster playing Call of Duty! ;-)
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