Microsoft Loves Linux: exFAT Offered for Linux Kernel Inclusion

Microsoft says it loves Linux on pretty much every single occasion, and in order to show everyone this is true, the company regularly announces changes that are supposed to help it get closer to the open-source world.

Today, the Redmond-based software giant revealed that it’s supporting the addition of exFAT to the Linux kernel, approximately 13 years after the file system originally launched.

exFAT, or the Extended File Allocation Table, is mostly used for flash drives and SD cards, and because it’s a proprietary Microsoft file system, using it on Linux wasn’t possible without other software and tweaks to get everything to work.

Technical specification also available

But as part of Microsoft’s strategy of getting more involved in the Linux world, the exFAT file system is offered for Linux kernel inclusion, with the company also publishing the technical specification</a… (read more)

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