Debian releases Lenny, MySQL 5.1 soon
Congratulations to the Debian team for releasing Debian GNU/Linux 5.0 Lenny on Valentine’s Day. This version comes with MySQL 5.0.51a. I had been pestering Norbert Tretkowski to see when MySQL 5.1 will...
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Recently in MariaDB #1
The aims of this kind of blog post is simple – I want to help keep the masses informed as to what’s happening with MariaDB, as a whole. There is a community growing, and MariaDB is a community...
View ArticleMariaDB in Gentoo; updates for Solaris/Debian SPARC
Gentoo It started with Brian Evans’ github repository, some good instructions on the mailing list for Building MariaDB on Gentoo, to a request for packaging, and guess what? Its now officially in...
View ArticleMariaDB in Debian unstable
There is a Debian MariaDB plan from the MySQL package team. There is good news as on September 30 2013, the upload to Debian unstable is complete with MariaDB 5.5 (5.5.32). It’s now only a matter of...
View ArticleMariaDB & distributions update, Dec 2013
A few things to note recently, amongst MariaDB in distributions. Ubuntu keeps MySQL 5.5 despite MariaDB’s success. There’s a lot of reasons for this, but remember the key takeaway here is MySQL 5.5...
View ArticleMariaDB 10.0.10 uploaded to Debian experimental
If you’re watching the NEW queue, you’ll notice that MariaDB 10.0.10 has been uploaded targeting Debian/experimental. Package description, and to think the bug was only opened on April 2nd – pretty...
View ArticleMySQL related IRC discussion channels
There are many MySQL related IRC discussion channels as the ecosystem itself grows. I join the following. Are there any that I’m missing? Freenode (irc.freenode.net): #mysql – main channel for all...
View ArticleUbuntu Online Summit: MySQL & Variants in 16.04
I personally have always enjoyed the Ubuntu Developer Summits (UDS), but nowadays they have been converted to the Ubuntu Online Summits (UOS). Attending them is not always convenient (timezone issues,...
View ArticleDebian and MariaDB Server
GNU/Linux distributions matter, and Debian is one of the most popular ones out there in terms of user base. Its an interesting time as MariaDB Server becomes more divergent compared to upstream MySQL,...
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