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

Yagnesh Desai <ynd@xxxxxxxxxx> 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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