Posted on 10/9/2010, 1:56 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
MariaDB just released MariaDB 5.1.50. Linux, Solaris and Windows (32-bit) are supported. Go give it a twirl.
Its also worth noting that today when you go install Drupal, and check out the documentation for requirements, you’ll see that MariaDB is now a recommended option.
Via the new news page at Monty Program’s newly designed website, I also found out that MariaDB is now recommended in the documentation for the next release of the Zend Framework. See the changelog.
Posted on 17/7/2010, 7:08 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB.
We’re at OSCON and today has been fabulous – I’ve just been connecting with old friends, and making new friends, and all this is what makes the travel experience completely worthwhile. If you’re at OSCON, why not come to a couple of BoF’s:
- MariaDB: The Community Fork of MySQL at 8pm on Monday 19/07/2010. Great for a general overview of MariaDB, for beginners to the advanced folk to come to.
- MariaDB: Features In-depth at 9pm on Wednesday 21/07/2010. Great if you’re a more intermediate to advanced user of MySQL/MariaDB and want to know more about the additional features MariaDB has to offer, and what else it might offer in the near future (i.e. what are you requesting).
Posted on 17/7/2010, 4:16 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
A big shoutout to the openSUSE team: openSUSE 11.3 has been released! And with it comes a choice for the database users out there – you can now choose between MySQL or MariaDB.
I wrote in February 2010 that MariaDB was in the unstable repository for openSUSE, and was informed by Michal that it would be included a little while ago. The version that is shipping is MariaDB 5.1.44, and why not give it a download?
So try it. Install via zypper in mariadb.
Posted on 5/7/2010, 2:52 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Remember the idea behind renaming Maria, the storage engine? People regularly get confused with Maria the storage engine, and MariaDB the database. We got a whole lot of good names, and here’s a short-listed amount of names (short-listed by Monty Program employees down to about 15), and now its up to YOU to help us choose what the new name should be. Quick, go take the survey.
Voting ends on Friday, July 9, 2010, at 23:59UTC.
The winner will be announced on the first day of OSCON on July 19 2010. The winner walks away with a Meerkat net-top from System76.
Posted on 2/7/2010, 2:35 pm, by Colin Charles, under
MySQL.
Jono Bacon recently spoke with Luke Kowalski, Oracle VP in the Corporate Architecture Group, about community in the context of MySQL. I’ve known Jono for sometime now, and I first met Luke at the MySQL Conference & Expo 2010 – I found out that we have a common shared interest: Formula One racing! Jono is somewhat of an expert in online, opensource communities – he after all did write the definitive book that O’Reilly published titled The Art of Community.
The video has made its way online, and Jono wrote a brief (and you can watch the video within his post) about what was discussed. You can also get it as a podcast – just subscribe to Oracle Technology Network TechCasts in your podcatcher.
Its under 25-minutes to watch or listen to, and I’d highly recommend you to take a look if you care about community, MySQL and direction. Choice quote: “Oracle needs to make a firm commitment to acting within the culture and ethos of Open Source to have an effective, fulfilling relationship with the MySQL community”. Definitely watch the video.
Posted on 8/6/2010, 4:34 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
Mark’s done an excellent job again, getting VM’s of MariaDB 5.1.47 (release notes, changelog) out there for download. He’s also improved the bandwidth available at the box hosting these images. Get it for Ubuntu 10.04 or OpenSolaris 0906.
