NTFS-3G is now the free 'community edition', while Tuxera NTFS is the proprietary version. The developers of NTFS-3G later formed a company, Tuxera Inc., to further develop the code.
The first stable version was released on February 21, 2007, as version 1.0.
NTFS-3G was introduced by one of the senior Linux NTFS developers, Szabolcs Szakacsits, in July 2006. It is a partial fork of ntfsprogs and is under active maintenance and development. It is licensed under the GNU General Public License. It is runnable on Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenSolaris, illumos, BeOS, QNX, WinCE, Nucleus, VxWorks, Haiku, MorphOS, Minix, macOS and OpenBSD. NTFS-3G often uses the FUSE file system interface, so it can run unmodified on many different operating systems. NTFS-3G is an open-source cross-platform implementation of the Microsoft Windows NTFS file system with read/write support.
