RE: RedHat and MariaDB
> From: Miles Fidelman [mailto:mfidelman@meetinghouse.net]
> > This is essentially what the consensus of the discussions I have seen boils
> down to. Some distributions, such as Fedora, are "switching." It's an
> either/or. Debian appears to prefer to let the marketplace decide
> ("marketplace" here used to mean "users"). They will offer a choice as long
> as it is feasible.
> >
> This sounds exactly right. We have quite a few SQL databases in the
> package repository (mysql, postgresql, sqlite for starters) - why is not
> mariadb just another addition? Where did this notion of an either/or
> choice come from?
I think it's because MariaDB is a fork of MySQL. Since they both do exactly the same thing, why have both?, is the thinking. And because Oracle.
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