Any of you use MariaDB?

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t3g
t3g
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A rejoint: 05/15/2011

I know its not in the Ubuntu or Trisquel repos and can be installed from the official page, but do any of you use this instead of MySQL?

I ask this because Fedora and OpenSUSE announced recently that they were both phasing out MySQL in favor of MariaDB. Their worries lie in rumors of Oracle looking to turn it into proprietary software very soon. On top of that, Oracle has recently cut off developers from submitting and managing bugs for MySQL.

The writing is on the wall it seems. After reading these stories, I switched from MySQL to MariaDB on my dev machines with no major issues. All my existing dbs work fine as does the php5-MySQL package.

andrew
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A rejoint: 04/19/2012

When I used to use Windows I used MariaDB. Not really any different from what MySQL used to be (which is a good thing BTW).

I hope that Debian/Ubuntu will follow as well. Maybe Debian Jessie will have it by default.

jxself
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A rejoint: 09/13/2010

And I think it's important to point that that, even if Oracle does
make MySQL proprietary, there will always will that one last release
under the GPL. It'll always be free because the GPL is irrevocable,
even if it has to live on as a fork because upstream went proprietary
for later versions.

MagicFab
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A rejoint: 12/13/2010

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Le 13-01-25 04:59 PM, Jason Self a écrit :
> And I think it's important to point that that, even if Oracle does
> make MySQL proprietary, there will always will that one last release
> under the GPL. It'll always be free because the GPL is irrevocable,
> even if it has to live on as a fork because upstream went proprietary
> for later versions.

There is a "Request for Packaging" bug report for Debian about his,
opened some time ago:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=565308

It was also discussed a year ago on the Ubuntu Server list.

Fedora and OpenSUSE's moves may make bring more attention to it now.

F.

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t3g
t3g
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A rejoint: 05/15/2011

It will make an even bigger impact when Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its derivative CentOS make the switch over. Many servers at corporations and web hosting companies use one of those two.

If Debian and Ubuntu follow suit soon after, then it could be the final nail in MySQL's coffin.

Chris

I am a member!

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A rejoint: 04/23/2011

I don't know for sure one way or the other although Oracle might not be able to change the licensing. They would have get or have required all along the copyright be assigned to them. That or not accepted outside contributions I suppose. I know Sun was a bit resistant to contributions so maybe this is possible after all. I thought it was just difficult to get contributions added to the official release and not that it was impossible though.

t3g
t3g
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A rejoint: 05/15/2011