tuxedo . tuxera inc. type private industry computer software and embedded systems founded finland 2008 headquarters helsinki finland key people mikko v lim ki ceo szabolcs szakacsits president and cto website www.tuxera.com tuxera inc. develops and sells file systems software . its most popular products are tuxera ntfs and tuxera exfat both available on a number of platforms including linux android qnx and mac os x. tuxera s customers include a number of consumer electronics manufacturers in mobile phones tablets tvs set top boxes automotive infotainment and storage markets . 1 tuxera ntfs for mac provides read write connectivity to windows formatted hard drives for mac os x. 2 the company was founded in 2008 and is headquartered in helsinki finland . tuxera s other offices are located in silicon valley korea 3 taiwan and china . contents 1 history 2 embedded products 2.1 tuxera ntfs 2.2 tuxera exfat 2.3 tuxera fat 2.4 ntfs 3g 2.5 tuxera flash file system 3 consumer products 3.1 allconnect 3.2 tuxera ntfs for mac 4 see also 5 references history edit the origin of the company dates back to the open source ntfs development in the late 1990s . ntfs had been introduced in 1993 by microsoft as the file system for windows nt . at that time anton altaparmakov emerged as the lead developer and maintainer of the linux ntfs kernel driver . meanwhile szabolcs szakacsits continued to lead a platform independent project under the name ntfs 3g . in 2006 ntfs 3g became the first driver to gain full read and write support . commercial activity started in 2007 and the company was founded next year . in 2009 the company signed agreements with microsoft 4 which was followed by global expansion and establishing the collaboration with chipset vendors and software platform companies . 5 in february 2011 tuxera joined the linux foundation 6 which was an expected step as for many years tuxera has contributed to the linux kernel . embedded products edit tuxera ntfs edit tuxera ntfs is a performance optimized fail safe fully compatible ntfs file system driver . it ships for example in smart tvs set top boxes smartphones tablets routers nas and other devices . it is available for android and other linux platforms qnx wince series 40 nucleus rtos and vxworks . supported architectures are arm architecture mips architecture powerpc superh and x86 . tuxera exfat edit tuxera exfat technology is used for sdxc memory card support . tuxera was the first independent vendor to receive legal access to exfat and texfat specifications source code and verification tools from microsoft . 7 tuxera exfat can be found in automotive infotainment systems android phones and tablets from asus fujitsu panasonic pantech and others . 8 tuxera fat edit tuxera fat software provides interoperability and support for storage types such as sd memory card cf card memory stick ssd hdd via usb sata esata mmc and others . 9 it is used by chipset and hardware manufacturers and software and system integrators for full compliance with microsoft patent licenses and gpl . ntfs 3g edit main article ntfs 3g ntfs 3g is the original free software community edition driver used widely in linux distributions including fedora ubuntu and others . in april 12 2011 it was announced that ntfsprogs project was merged with ntfs 3g . 10 tuxera flash file system edit tuxera also develops and commercializes its own proprietary flash file system . due to its fail safe technology it can be found for instance in vehicles and cars integrated with the event data recorder to make sure the data recorded from sensors is consistent even in case of a crash . 11 consumer products edit allconnect edit allconnect is a mobile app that allows to stream music photos and videos from android devices to dlna receivers smart tvs set top boxes wireless speakers etc. . it was launched in november 12 2013 under the name of streambels . 12 tuxera ntfs for mac edit tuxera ntfs for mac allows mac os x computers to read and write ntfs partitions . by default mac os x provides only read access to ntfs partitions . the latest version of the driver is 2015.1 released in october 2015 . 13 with the introduction of system integrity protection sip by apple in os x el capitan usage of third party software in disk utility is no longer possible . as a workaround tuxera ntfs for mac ships together with tuxera disk manager 14 to facilitate the format and maintenance of ntfs volumes in os x. currently the software supports 13 languages arabic simplified and traditional chinese english french german italian japanese korean portuguese russian spanish and turkish . 15 the software supports 64 bit kernels including os x el capitan . 16 it supports ntfs extended attributes and works with virtualization and encryption solutions including parallels desktop and vmware fusion . see also edit ntfs exfat ntfs 3g fat references edit tuxera shows example in finding your niche http appducate.com 2013 01 read write to windows ntfs partition on mac tuxera opens office in korea market leader in file systems expands service and support across asia http blogs.technet.com b port25 archive 2009 08 26 tuxera signs file system ip agreement with microsoft.aspx suomalaisfirman ohjelmisto l ytyy uusista bemareista ja mersuista http www.reuters.com article 2011 02 08 idus118124 08 feb 2011 mw20110208 tuxera joins linux foundation reuters http gigaom.com 2010 06 08 android linux get large file handling with tuxera exfat jani timonen kotimainen ohjelmistoyritys tuxera on teknologiaraketti kasvua yli 6000 prosenttia helsingin sanomat 14.07.2015 . retrieved 05.10.2015 . tuxera fat by tuxera inc. ntfs 3g merges with ntfsprogs plus new version kristen hall geisler the importance of black boxes in an autonomous automotive future techcrunch 13.05.2016 . retrieved 15.05.2016 . streambels app brings airplay and dlna to android phones and tablets supports media streaming to the most popular smart devices on the market tuxera ntfs for 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