Google announces MacFUSE
January 11, 2007 - A quick heads-up about Google’s release today of MacFUSE, an open source port of the FUSE “Filesystem in Userspace” mechanism, previously available only on Linux and FreeBSD. MacFUSE gives OS X developers the ability to organize almost any data into a file system; it also enables most existing Linux-based FUSE file systems to work on the Mac. So Mac developers and even hobbyists can easily write apps that provide a familiar file-system view of any type of data from any source, whether a web service or a local disk–a web photo album, for instance, or an iTunes library with album art, playlists, artists, and genres organized in folders.
Amit Singh, engineering manager for the Mac Client team at Google, announced the release of MacFUSE today at his Macworld talk, “Taming Mac OS X Filesystems.” For more information, see:
- http://googlemac.blogspot.com/2007/01/taming-mac-os-x-file-systems.html
- http://google-code-updates.blogspot.com/2007/01/macfuse-fuse-for-mac-os-x.html
You can findthe MacFUSE page on Google Code here: http://code.google.com/p/macfuse/
Tags: Open Source
