Excerpts from Clint Byrum's message of Tue Feb 07 01:50:18 -0800 2012:
> Many of us in the Free and Open Source software community have seen a
> trend regarding Oracle's stewardship of Open source software that it
> inherited when it purchased Sun. In particular there were two fairly
> large public
>From MariaDB FAQ page:
http://kb.askmonty.org/en/why-is-the-project-called-mariadb
"The 'MySQL' name is trademarked by Oracle, and they have chosen to keep
that trademark to themselves. The name MySQL (just like the MyISAM storage
engine) comes from Monty's first daughter "My". MariaDB continues
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.
In 2009, even before Oracle has purchased Sun, Monty Widenius (one of the
original creators of MySQL and architects) has le
On 02/13/2012 01:20 AM, Eddie Bachle wrote:
> I would like to say we would still switch, or still heavily consider it
> for the grains that could be made by using Ubuntu, however
> realistically, the lack of native MySQL in any OS would be a huge mark
> against it.
FTR, we would not *drop* MySQL
The first time I have attempted this was in the previous release of Ubuntu,
o I am not totally sure of what version number was available.
At least two of the most recent trys were with 11.10 oneiric... the servers
had mysql 5.1.58-1ubuntu1 and now are running
mariadb 5.2.10-mariadb107~oneiric
I h
I have already moved some of my servers to mariadb, with minor to none
downtime during the process, but I have also kept some of them stuck with
mysql just because of the "official" support (well, it is the elected one
in main repository after all)
I have also done some bench marking and have also
2012/2/7 Clint Byrum :
> So what should we, the Debian and Ubuntu MySQL maintainers and users,
> do about this?
This is really more for the heavy users to answer, but I haven't seen
any indication that MariaDB wouldn't be an LTS worthy replacement. It
has the majority of former MySQL core develope
