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Finally solved the remaining problems with this version.
Get linux version: here
and Windows version: here.

One of the things a new Linux user with long Windows past most misses when giving his first steps in the *Nix world is the lack of interoperability between the two platforms. I know at least I did. The first distribution I used was Ubuntu Linux. When I first booted into the system, there was no support for windows networking and printer sharing. Still, I could live well enough with those shortcomings and, installing samba and cups was not that much of an odyssey. What made me most uncomfortable was the fact that I had no write access to any of the data I had kept in my external disc. As most of my friends use Windows, NTFS was the best filesystem choice for it (FAT was no good because of 4GB+ files).

After doing a lot of googling, I discovered that write access was considered dangerous, but there was a new project called ntfs-3g. Their goal: Fast, Safe and Easy write access to NTFS file systems. I must admit I was a bit skeptical about it at first. I didn’t want to risk my or my friend’s files on an experimental driver, so I waited.

The wait is over!

Very recently the guys over ntfs-3g.org released the stable version of their ntfs-3g driver, and I must say: It rocks! In the last 24 Hours I have transfered some 50Gb of files and my Windows box is yet to report any problems. The thing I like the most in *Nix world is that when something is labeled stable, that usually means it is -really- stable. This seems to be one more example.

Luís Costa//