project/captive/doc/Related.pm

   1 # $Id$
   2 # Captive project doc Related Projects page Perl template.
   3 # Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Jan Kratochvil <project-www.jankratochvil.net@jankratochvil.net>
   4 #
   5 # This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
   6 # it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
   7 # the Free Software Foundation; exactly version 2 of June 1991 is required
   8 #
   9 # This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
  10 # but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
  11 # MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
  12 # GNU General Public License for more details.
  13 #
  14 # You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
  15 # along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
  16 # Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA  02111-1307  USA
  17
  18
  19 package project::captive::doc::Related;
  20 require 5.6.0;  # at least 'use warnings;' but we need some 5.6.0+ modules anyway
  21 our $VERSION=do { my @r=(q$Revision$=~/\d+/g); sprintf "%d.".("%03d"x$#r),@r; };
  22 our $CVS_ID=q$Id$;
  23 use strict;
  24 use warnings;
  25
  26 use My::Web;
  27
  28
  29 sub handler
  30 {
  31         BEGIN { Wuse 'project::captive::doc::Macros'; }
  32 project::captive::doc::Macros->init(
  33                 "title"=>'Captive NTFS Developer Documentation: Related Projects',
  34                 "rel_prev"=>'TODO.pm',
  35                 "rel_next"=>'LinuxNTFS.pm',
  36                 );
  37
  38
  39 print <<"HERE";
  40
  41
  42 <h1>Related Projects</h1>
  43
  44         <p>The usual solution for file exchange between $freespeech operating systems
  45         and <span class="productname">Microsoft Windows NT</span> is to use
  46         <span class="productname">FAT32</span> (<span class="productname">vfat</span>
  47         called in $gnulinux) partition and swap the files over it. This method is not
  48         very comfortable as you never have access to all the files of the other
  49         operating system.</p>
  50
  51         <h2 id="LinuxNTFScompet">$LinuxNTFS</h2>
  52
  53                 <p>Although this project takes a&nbsp;completely different approach and has
  54                 a&nbsp;different architecture, the final goal is the same as for this
  55                 project &ndash; reliable read-write <span class="productname">NTFS</span>
  56                 filesystem support. $LinuxNTFS goes the way of reverse engineering
  57                 filesystem data structures (and possibly
  58                 <span class="fname">ntfs.sys</span> itself). Unfortunately after many years
  59                 of its development it did not yet reach the state of reliable read-write
  60                 access although its read-only part is considered trustworthy.</p>
  61
  62                 <p>Using $LinuxNTFS for read-only access to existing partition with
  63                 <span class="productname">Microsoft Windows NT</span> installation is
  64                 implemented for successful acquire of <span class="fname">ntfs.sys</span>,
  65                 <span class="fname">ntoskrnl.exe</span> and possibly even
  66                 <span class="fname">fastfat.sys</span> and/or
  67                 <span class="fname">cdfs.sys</span> files from the user's
  68                 <span class="productname">NTFS</span> partition.</p>
  69
  70         <h2 id="Paragon"><span class="productname">
  71                         Paragon @{[ a_href 'http://www.ntfs-linux.com/','NTFS for Linux' ]}</span></h2>
  72
  73                 <p>Real competition: Closed-source read/write @{[ '$69.95' ]} equivalent.</p>
  74
  75                 <p>Closed-source read-write <span class="productname">NTFS</span>
  76                 filesystem support. It goes the way of reverse engineering
  77                 filesystem data structures (and possibly
  78                 <span class="fname">ntfs.sys</span> itself) which may lead to
  79                 a disk corruption by modified not fully understood disk data
  80                 structures.</p>
  81
  82                 <p>This closed-source product also means loosing the security of your
  83                 GNU/Linux system by running closed-source software product.</p>
  84
  85         <h2 id="NTPwd"><span class="productname">@{[ a_href 'http://www.cgsecurity.org/ntfs.html',
  86                         'NTPwd NTFS Driver' ]}</span></h2>
  87
  88                 <p>DOS based @{[ a_href 'http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html','GPL-2.0' ]}
  89                 read-write NTFS driver. Filesystem structures are reverse engineered in the
  90                 way of @{[ a_href 'Related.pm#LinuxNTFScompet','Linux-NTFS Project' ]}. As it is not very
  91                 actively maintained it reaches a&nbsp;lower level of
  92                 <span class="productname">NTFS</span> compatibility.</p>
  93
  94         <h2 id="vmware">@{[ a_href 'http://www.vmware.com/download/workstation.html','VMware Workstation' ]}</h2>
  95
  96                 <p>Real competition: Closed-source read/write @{[ '$299' ]} equivalent.</p>
  97
  98                 <p>Original Microsoft Windows operating system can be run inside a virtual
  99                 machine running under GNU/Linux and share the read-write NTFS disk by using
 100                 a network file sharing through a&nbsp;VMware virtual network card.</p>
 101
 102                 <p>You need @{[ '$299' ]} for this product and you need to
 103                 give up your system security by running un@{[ a_href 'Details.pm#sandbox','sandbox' ]}ed
 104                 closed-source program in your GNU/Linux.</p>
 105
 106         <h2 id="wine">@{[ a_href 'http://www.winehq.com/','Wine Project' ]}</h2>
 107
 108                 <p>No code could be shared &ndash; Wine emulates only Microsoft Windows userland.
 109                 Filesystem drivers completely belong to Microsoft Windows kernelland.</p>
 110
 111         <h2 id="ntfs98">@{[ a_href 'http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/freeware/ntfswin98.shtml','NTFS for Windows 98' ]}</h2>
 112
 113                 <p>Closed-source read-only-crippled @{[ '$0' ]} equivalent for Microsoft Windows.</p>
 114
 115                 <p>There is a @{[ a_href 'http://www.sysinternals.com/images/screenshots/ntfs98ap.gif',
 116                                 'diagram' ]} showing exactly the principle of Captive NTFS project.
 117                 There is apparently disabled read/write functionality in <i>NTFS for
 118                 Windows 98</i> as the same company also sells the following product sharing
 119                 the same codebase:</p>
 120
 121         <h2 id="ntfsdos">@{[ a_href 'http://www.winternals.com/products/repairandrecovery/ntfsdospro.asp',
 122                         'NTFSDOS Professional' ]}</h2>
 123
 124                 <p>Closed-source read/write @{[ '$299' ]} equivalent for MS-DOS.</p>
 125
 126                 <p>This product is the most close equivalent to Captive NTFS but it is
 127                 a commercial product, closed-source and it has filesystem interface only
 128                 for MS-DOS.</p>
 129
 130
 131 HERE
 132
 133
 134 exit;
 135 }
 136 1;