LWN: Comments on "The 2007 Linux and free software timeline"

Stable NTFS read-write support

bronson — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 21:26:40 +0000

That really is an impressive achievement!  Congratulations to everybody who participated.  I
salute you even though I personally haven't used NTFS since somewhere around 2002.  :)

Stable NTFS read-write support

szaka — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:38:02 +0000

I've sent the below email to timeline@lwn.net on 22th of Dec 2007 but got
no reply, so please let me copy it below this time since quite many people
invested a lot effort into this to happen finally.

Good Day,

Thanks to thousands of contributors over the last twelve years, Linux 
finally has stable read-write support for one of the most widely used and 
complex files systems in existence (Microsoft's NTFS estimated source base 
is over 500,000 lines, meanwhile FAT is around only 5,000).

In the same year the driver was included in over 100 Linux distributions, 
including all the major ones, was also ported to OS X, FreeBSD, NetBSD, 
Haiku, OpenSolaris, bigendian and 64-bit platforms.

Best regards,
                Szaka

--
NTFS-3G Lead Developer:  http://ntfs-3g.org

suggestion: November

grouch — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 23:30:14 +0000

I think the "Give one, get one" program, begun November 12, is a significant event for Linux and free software. News coverage such as Bill Board's article in the BBC, " Give me rice, but give me a laptop too", give an indication of the importance of OLPC. The G1G1 program provides the opportunity for individuals outside of the target groups to purchase the laptop. It seems to me that such an adaptation of the plans for this extraordinary project is worth a mention.

All-in-one, bigpage link?

sladen — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 18:47:09 +0000

Is there going to be the traditional Druidic "all in one huge page" link thing?