Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 16 Feb 2012, at 07:57, Henrik Ingo wrote: > On Tue, Feb 14, 2012 at 2:28 PM, Fabio T. Leitao > wrote: >> For those who have not followed this up closely, a little history. >> >> Remember that MariaDB is not just "compatible" with MySQL, but it kind of IS >> MySQL, forked and re-branded.

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 15 Feb 2012, at 00:49, Marc Deslauriers wrote: > We are unable to determine what the recent MySQL security fixes are due > to lack of details, and unclear commit messages. Based on our analysis of commits and bugs, we believe the CPU (critical patch update) that Oracle released was actua

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 14 Feb 2012, at 20:28, Fabio T. Leitao wrote: > Remember that MariaDB is not just "compatible" with MySQL, but it kind of IS > MySQL, forked and re-branded. I like to say that it is MySQL, branched and re-branded with additional features. It is not a fork. We rebase with MySQL on a regu

Re: [Maria-discuss] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 14 Feb 2012, at 00:11, Robbie Williamson wrote: > One thing to note, the primary motivator for this proposal isn't about > moving to a more "open source friendly" application. We have genuine > security concerns/issues with how MySQL handles and publishes their > security updates. We can

Re: [debian-mysql] MySQL's future in Debian and Ubuntu

2012-02-15 Thread Colin Charles
Hi! On 13 Feb 2012, at 15:20, Eddie Bachle wrote: > As Linux gains more public recognition, more and more Windows-only > organizations will consider using it as an alternative, especially for their > web servers. This is especially true because of the fact that each of the > necessarily main

Re: Battery Warnings

2012-02-15 Thread Ray Perigo
@Jeremy - This is under Unity on 11.04, non-OEM install. I do have GNOME Shell installed also, but I'm not sure how that could bork things. On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:33 AM, Oussama Bounaim wrote: > Hi, > > I'm also affected by this i'm using ubuntu 10.04 and i have all the update > installed, be