Tuxera: An Etymology

This post is adapted from a presentation that I planned to give at Tuxera while I still worked there, but unfortunately I was not able to finish it before moving on. I didn’t want all the preparation and existing material to go to waste, so I have shaped it into this blog post and somewhat extended it.

Tuxera, Inc. is a company headquartered in Espoo, Finland, where I worked for about two and a half years as a software engineer. The company’s core products are proprietary filesystem drivers, mainly ones providing Linux compatibility and power fail safety for Microsoft file systems such as FAT and NTFS, plus a few others for specialty deeply embedded needs. There are other product categories as well, such as a proprietary high-performance SMB server.

The company was founded in 2008 by Szabolcs Szakácsits, a Hungarian-born software developer and early adopter of Linux. Its original name was NTFS-3G Technologies, referencing the FUSE-based open source NTFS driver project started by Szakácsits.

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