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> community and developers will move to. I have never seen a fork last long enough.

• jaylittle 3y ago
  MariaDB called and said, "I'm still here" ;)
  • ktosobcy 3y ago
    Is it really used/ popular?
    • prox 3y ago
      Yes
    • nasretdinov 3y ago
      At some point I believe Google had the largest MySQL installation in the world and they were using MariaDB.
    • georgyo 3y ago
      very yes
    • graemep 3y ago
      Yes, it replaced MySQL in Debian, and many other distros. The only shared web hosting I know about uses it on FreeBSD, etc. It seems to be more widely used then MySQL at this point.
    • jeltz 3y ago
      Yes, when most people say MySQL they actually mean MariaDB.
    • nolok 3y ago
      Unless you actively want the support contract with Oracle, there is no reason not to use MariaDB instead. Debian changed it to the default quite a while ago, and it's full support for mysql compatibility means you sometime don't even notice it (eg "mysql" is starting mariadb client).
    • bawolff 3y ago
      I mean, its powering Wikipedia right now and that's the seventh most popular website in the world.
    • tick_tock_tick 3y ago
      It's so popular I've never seen anyone actually use the original.
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• jeltz 3y ago
  LibreOffice? MariaDB? X.Org?
  • elric 3y ago
    FreeBSD? NetBSD? OpenBSD? Half of all Linux distros? Seriously, the number of succesful forks is huge.
• eqvinox 3y ago
  FRRouting forked from Quagga. Quagga is dead now, FRRouting is on overdrive.
• sebstefan 3y ago
  Like which one? Like the other commenters under you, I can only think of forks that lasted long enough Probably some survivor bias
  • jeltz 3y ago
    Yeah, survivor bias. Most forks die, but there are plenty of successful ones.
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