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.
Posted on 1/5/2010, 8:27 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
A big congratulations to Ubuntu for the release of 10.04 LTS. While I haven’t had the chance to upgrade, I see everyone on Twitter and in the blogosphere say they are really like the Lucid experience.
A couple of days ago, I made mention that there were VirtualBox images of MariaDB out there. Turns out there were so many downloads, Mark has had to upgrade his Internet connection!
Anyway, to the point: Mark has created Ubuntu 10.04 LTS VM’s with MariaDB 5.1.44 and MariaDB 5.2 BETA. Don’t hesitate to download them, and send feedback.
Have a good weekend playing with Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Lucid Lynx release, and enjoy using MariaDB on it.
Posted on 30/4/2010, 3:32 am, by Colin Charles, under
MariaDB,
MySQL.
A couple of things:
- There is now a Monty Program Group Blog. Its brand new, and in a company where most people spend time on writing tonnes of code, expect posts to be sporadic, but of great technical nature. We’ll also cover things like events, conferences, etc. i.e. where can you meet a Monty Program person. Do subscribe to our RSS or ATOM feed.
- At the MySQL Conference recently, Monty announced the rename the Maria engine contest. The competition is still running, and the winner gets a System76 Meerkat NetTop. Some interesting names have already shown up. Monty says, “Make it tell a story”.
