There isn't any, really. 'ext', 'ext2', 'ext3', and 'reiser' are common; any kind of FAT partition is mountable. (FAT16, FAT32, FAT32 LBA, and something called VFAT; I don't know the difference with VFAT.
And Linux can itself be installed on a FAT partition and work just fine; This is probably another thing newbies don't like - Decisions, Decisions! ;-)
Cheers! Rich
When windows
I meant to say Internet Explorer.
Consider VFAT as virtual FAT or versatile FAT. Reads / writes all of the previous, very portable.
Ext is almost extinct, ext2 is very portable, i have used utilities to read / write from M$ OS's.
ext3 is next most portable with similar / the same utilities doing the job is M$ OS's.
Other than that you are beyond my sure knowledge.
M$ is not dead. Many billions of dollars has a LOT of inertia. Just the same, M$ pushed very hard to promote Vista and has met ever increasing resistance from large businesses, and individual users. Can you say major market flop. That is going to really hurt.
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