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What a coincidence! Just today, Slackware also switched to MariaDB! [1]. Two weeks ago, it was openSUSE [2]. It's on the cards for the next Fedora release in Ma

What a coincidence! Just today, Slackware also switched to MariaDB! [1]. Two weeks ago, it was openSUSE [2]. It's on the cards for the next Fedora release in May [3]. Wonder when will Debian (and its children) make the switch. [1]: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Slackware-Linux-switches-to-MariaDB-1829261.html http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Slackware-Linux-switc... [2]: http://blog.mariadb.org/opensuse-12-3-released-with-mariadb-as-default/ http://blog.mariadb.org/opensuse-12-3-released-with-mariadb-... [3]: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-19-MariaDB-instead-of-MySQL-but-no-Btrfs-1795146.html http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Fedora-19-MariaDB-ins...

Spittie 14y ago
I know it's not exactly a huge distro, but Chakra did the switch almost two months ago. http://chakra-project.org/news/index.php?/archives/3-Switching-from-MySQL-to-MariaDB.html http://chakra-project.org/news/index.php?/archives/3-Switchi...
username111 14y ago
Debian stable: Probably not for a while. Ubuntu and Debian testing and up maybe sooner.
ams6110 14y ago
From the OpenBSD ports email list: Subject: NEW: MariaDB To: ports@openbsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:55:07 -0400 Here is a new port of MariaDB. MariaDB is a fork of MySQL maintained in the open. The development environment is so much better than what has become of MySQL AB since Oracle took over Sun. They deal with security issues in a much better manner and don't try to hide the tickets or any details regarding the issues. Bugs are fixed much quicker and tickets in general are dealt with in a much better manner. MariaDB 5.5 will replace the current MySQL 5.1 port for the next release. ...
Corrado 14y ago
I would think that Debian would be especially sensitive to the Closed Source environment that Oracle is generating for MySQL. It seems like it would be an easy choice between two software stacks; one OSS and the other CSS. Granted, Stable probably won't move for at least a release cycle, but I would be disappointed if Sid didn't make the switch soon. Ubuntu, on the other hand, doesn't have the same strong OSS sensibilities and will probably tow the Oracle line, at least for a little while longer.
- jcastro 14y ago
  > Ubuntu, on the other hand, doesn't have the same strong OSS sensibilities and will probably tow the Oracle line, at least for a little while longer. Sorry to ruin your "Ubuntu is more closed" claim (seriously why even make that up?) but Ubuntu has been discussing switching to MariaDB at for the past year -- here are the last 2 blueprints with the progress: - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-mysql-roundtable https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-... - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-r-mysql https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-r-... Also it's "toe the line", and we're toeing with Debian, it just happens to be the same person doing the work in Ubuntu and Debian, so doing the work in Debian and syncing to Ubuntu makes the most sense.

Spittie 14y ago

I know it's not exactly a huge distro, but Chakra did the switch almost two months ago. http://chakra-project.org/news/index.php?/archives/3-Switching-from-MySQL-to-MariaDB.html http://chakra-project.org/news/index.php?/archives/3-Switchi...

username111 14y ago

Debian stable: Probably not for a while. Ubuntu and Debian testing and up maybe sooner.

ams6110 14y ago

From the OpenBSD ports email list: Subject: NEW: MariaDB To: ports@openbsd.org Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2013 21:55:07 -0400 Here is a new port of MariaDB. MariaDB is a fork of MySQL maintained in the open. The development environment is so much better than what has become of MySQL AB since Oracle took over Sun. They deal with security issues in a much better manner and don't try to hide the tickets or any details regarding the issues. Bugs are fixed much quicker and tickets in general are dealt with in a much better manner. MariaDB 5.5 will replace the current MySQL 5.1 port for the next release. ...

Corrado 14y ago

I would think that Debian would be especially sensitive to the Closed Source environment that Oracle is generating for MySQL. It seems like it would be an easy choice between two software stacks; one OSS and the other CSS. Granted, Stable probably won't move for at least a release cycle, but I would be disappointed if Sid didn't make the switch soon. Ubuntu, on the other hand, doesn't have the same strong OSS sensibilities and will probably tow the Oracle line, at least for a little while longer.

jcastro 14y ago
> Ubuntu, on the other hand, doesn't have the same strong OSS sensibilities and will probably tow the Oracle line, at least for a little while longer. Sorry to ruin your "Ubuntu is more closed" claim (seriously why even make that up?) but Ubuntu has been discussing switching to MariaDB at for the past year -- here are the last 2 blueprints with the progress: - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-mysql-roundtable https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-q-... - https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-r-mysql https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/servercloud-r-... Also it's "toe the line", and we're toeing with Debian, it just happens to be the same person doing the work in Ubuntu and Debian, so doing the work in Debian and syncing to Ubuntu makes the most sense.