There has been a lot of discussion around exFAT on both IP and technical details. The basis is that SD Association has chosen exFAT as the file system in the next generation SD cards. Tuxera is here to provide the actual exFAT software for companies that embed the file system into their consumer electronics products. We published recently an Tuxera exFAT for Linux white paper at Interoperability vendor alliance to showcase the work we have done on exFAT. While the white paper is rather high-level, Tuxera is happy to provide more information on how the file system and licensing works for anyone interested. Tuxera exFAT is built on a portable and reliable code base and now available for Android, Linux and other operating systems.
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Computex Taipei is finally over and done for 2010. A great event, with a lot of interesting electronics. It is clear the current semiconductor hotspot is here. From NAS systems to set-top-boxes, from cameras to phones, everything is packed together in Taipei or the nearby cities. In connection with Computex we did a joint press release with Microsoft on Tuxera exFAT for Linux.
The scenery in Taipei is unique. A quick escape from Taipei101 to Meokong for an afternoon tea shows everything from modern high-tech architecture to unreachable rainforest jungle in less than an hour. While it was raining almost every day I found the climate pleasant: warm but not too hot. You could walk with a T-shirt around the clock.
Nokia and Intel announced yesterday the merge of Maemo and Moblin called MeeGo. At face value, the news were not so surprising as Android is taking market share very quickly at the moment. In between the lines, the news strongly indicate that Linux will sooner than later become the dominant platform for cool phones. Nokia’s Ari Jaaksi says:
Make you stuff work under, inside, or on top of MeeGo and you get your stuff deployed all over the place. Nokia will ship tons of MeeGo devices, Intel, too
This is good news for companies like Tuxera. We are ready to support data portability on any Linux-based mobile device, be it running Android or MeeGo. For example shooting 1080p video into the device’s flash card requires in practice a file system change from FAT32 to exFAT. Tuxera exFAT works inside Android and MeeGo to manage that change.
It has been an interesting week. Our Microsoft PR went through the media pretty much as expected. Some coverage:
- ZD Net
- ZD Net UK
- H Online
- LWN
- Port25 at Microsoft
- OS news
- The Register
- Heise.de
- Linux Today
- Linux Magazin
Brief answers to frequently asked questions so far:
- The agreements do not allow us to distribute end-user or open source exFAT drivers for Linux. We are communicating with Microsoft and hope to do that in the near future. A solution is needed before exFAT becomes a de facto standard.
- The agreements do not change anything regarding NTFS drivers. We will continue to distribute and support NTFS-3G both under GPL and commercial licenses.