Re: Reg: Mysql used instead of MariaDB

[maderios <maderios@gmail.com>]

On 08/04/2013 07:14 AM, Balamurugan wrote:
> Dear Team,
>
> I am a highly admired fan of free software movement and its philosophy.
> I am having a doubt in Debian 7.1 stable release about MySQL addition.
>
> Since MariaDB has become the open source replacement for MySQL, why was
> MariaDB not included in the latest release? Is there any reason behind?
> Since now MySQL is a part of Oracle, I believe we need to move towards
> MariaDB and support it fully.
Hi
I agree with you. I don't like to wait... I don't understand myself why 
Mariadb is not available in Debian. Opensuse, Fedora, Wikipedia migrated 
from Mysql to Mariadb, 100% free software. I downloaded and installed 
official .deb from Mariadb site.  It works with Wheezy and Jessie, on my 
two PC. I use it with Digikam and Amarok. Mariadb works like Mysql, same 
commands. Installation keeps  mysql-common and  libmysqlclient18.
Greetings
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Maderios