I'm leaving Trisquel
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After reviewing the four fundamental freedoms of libre software, from Richard Stallman's 3rd edition, I feel it is a bit of a distraction to see so much being made about Trisquel being behind other distros. If the latest security holes relate to CODECS and conveniences then maybe I am also guilty for non participation. I read about fuse exfat and learned that early versions were read-only. I could only install full featured fuse-exfat from Ubuntu's deb files into Trisquel, and it is by no means reliable. I don't complain because that is the only way to extract files from a digital camera when fitted with a 64GB or larger SD card. When I tried suggesting in a Ubuntu forum that a stable read-only version should also be made available, I was, for some reason, no longer able to log in to their forums. In that sense, Trisquel is far from being dead in my world.
Why would you want a read-only version of fuse-exfat if it now supports writing?
The commonly available digital camera I have records and deletes and formats the fuse-exFat system reasonably well most of the time. If the code for the exFat system is proprietary, at least the code for accessing the data should be made free. I do not disrespect proprietary formats, but there are unknown issues with it. I simply believe that a free version should at some time be available in a main repository that guarantees accessibility even with a chdir command from within a compiled C directory changer program.
I am a Trisquel 6.0 user who came from Ubuntu 12.04 after being unable to use Alt-tab properly with Ubuntu if it included the bash terminal there.
But fuse-exfat exists, and it is free. Are you saying that the write support is buggy? If so, you can just mount it read-only.
I'll check the license and see if I can make sense of the source code.
I always mount from bash using it with -ro option. I avoid using the gui which doesn't ask how to mount any drives and exposes me to inadvertently mounting anything in sight. Changing directories with the nautilus gui or from the shell using cd command always works. It is the chdir command from a compiled C program that causes problems when navigating into a directory where the exfat device is mounted to.
It is GPL: https://github.com/relan/exfat
Thanks. I've got my work cut out for me.
I that a blob word I see there?
https://github.com/relan/exfat/blob/master/ChangeLog
Blob is a git-related term: https://git-scm.com/book/en/v2/Git-Internals-Git-Objects
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