I've been researching and figured that MacFUSE and NTFS-3g have both been discontinued.

However, then I stumbled upon OSXFUSE (successor to MacFUSE) and the latest working drivers from Tux @ http://macntfs-3g.blogspot.com/2010/12/tuxera-ntfs-for-mac-201012-rc.html

Is this a good enough combination or should I pay for the commercial product? Does the discontinued NTFS-3g driver have any glaring bugs or performance issues? I read a couple of threads about people having corrupted files/drives and I'd rather be safe.

Related Question: If the open source NTFS-3g driver has been discontinued, what do the Linux distros now use? I was under the assumption that Ubuntu used NTFS-3g to provide NTFS compatibility. Also, what does VMware Fusion 4 use to provide its drag-n-drop functionality?

Thanks

Open source NTFS-3G is not discountinued. We just made a new stable release last week:
http://www.tuxera.com/open-source/relea ... 2012-1-15/

Best regards, Szaka

I am sure what 95% of us want is a binary installer. You do not have that yet for Lion. We will wait for that.

Is a binary even scheduled?
I thought there won't be anymore *free* Mac OS X support?