The driver utility is currently under active maintenance and was developed as a fork to the NTFSPROGS, a proprietary version of which is already available. It is currently available under the GNU General Public License. Because of its FUSE interface, this driver can be used on a multitude of operating systems, without any modifications. This cross platform open source NTFS file system was developed to provide read-write support to the Microsoft Windows NTFS file systems. This helps in gaining access to all devices and partitions that are using the NTFS formats. The NTFS-3G is based on the FUSE file system. As a result, this driver is found in millions of devices and more than 30 books on advanced computing reference this driver as well. NTFS-3G provides a platform to many electronic devices as well as computers to engage in safer data exchange.
Users who want a dependable source of inter-operated NTFS find this a great utility that helps them in developing, testing and supporting hardware platform solutions.
It is an NTFS read/write driver that can be used for FreeBSD, Mac OS X, Linux, Haiku, Solaris, NetBSD and a host of other operating systems.
NTFS-3G is a driver utility that runs on all Mac computers and is available for free.