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#1 2015-04-13 10:17:24
- bagol
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Why Arch Linux official repository provide MariaDB instead of MySQL?
First, I want to say I'm not an expert in MySQL or any other RDBMS. I just started to learn mysql a month ago. So didn't know exactly what is the practical difference between MariaDB and MySQL. Both are looks the same (except for the prompt as far as I know). But oracle MySQL is still the majority RDBMS that is being used in comparision with MariaDB. Since I just started to learn, I wanna use the most used. So I choose MySQL.
My curiosity is why Arch choose MariaDB? Is MySQL going against "The Arch Way" or something like that? I read somewhere when googling that one of the reason why MariaDB is created is because Oracle purchased Sun Microsystems. Or maybe there're some bug issues or something if using MySQL on Arch Linux?
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#2 2015-04-13 10:28:24
- graysky
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Re: Why Arch Linux official repository provide MariaDB instead of MySQL?
Search back through the arch news items. We switched over a fews ago I think.
EDIT: https://lists.archlinux.org/pipermail/a … 24478.html
Last edited by graysky (2015-04-13 10:30:28)
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#3 2015-04-13 12:35:40
- karol
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Re: Why Arch Linux official repository provide MariaDB instead of MySQL?
Search back through the arch news items.
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