Microsoft announced today that it will support the addition of the exFAT file system (Extended File Allocation Table) to the Linux kernel through the Open Invention Network. The exFAT file system has been developed for USB drives and SD cards by Microsoft.
"Today we are pleased to announce that Microsoft will support its addition technology exFAT της Microsoft στον Linux kernel,”, δήλωσε ο John Gossman, διακεκριμένος μηχανικός της Microsoft και μέλος του διοικητικού συμβουλίου του Linux.
Proprietary exFAT technology was introduced about a decade ago in 2006 as the successor to FAT32 in the FAT filesystem family. Today it is used by the vast majority of USB storage devices.
Although it is available free a FUSE-based exFAT FUSE for Linux users who want to have SD and USB cards in their computers, the Microsoft driver to offer a fully functional application.
Code for Linux exFAT will be available under the GPLv2 license.
Microsoft even published the technical specifications of exFAT on the Windows Dev website Center.
Redmond also announced that it “offers the technical specifications of exFAT free and available to all, and the exFAT code built into the Linux kernel will be available under a GPLv2 license.”
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Microsoft was added as a member of The Linux Foundation in November of 2016, after Satya Nadella took over as CEO of the company.
The company also developed the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), which allows Windows 10 and Windows users Server & Hosting 2019 to run Linux files on their computers.
Redmond developers have recently started working with WSL2 which uses a genuine open source Linux Kernel that developed by Microsoft itself from the fixed version 4.19 of the Linux Kernel.
