{"id":1689,"date":"2010-02-23T00:26:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T05:26:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=1689"},"modified":"2010-02-23T00:38:22","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T05:38:22","slug":"recently-in-mariadb-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2010\/02\/23\/recently-in-mariadb-1","title":{"rendered":"Recently in MariaDB #1"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"MariaDB<\/a> The aims of this kind of blog post is simple – I want to help keep the masses informed as to what’s happening with MariaDB, as a whole. There is a community growing, and MariaDB is a community project, not necessarily a Monty Program Ab baby (and we’re clear on this distinction: think of it like Canonical\/Ubuntu). So, think of it as such that I’m sharing the good news, and summarising what’s been happening, to save you time.<\/p>\n

MariaDB added to the Debian\/Ubuntu wishlists<\/b>
\nOne of MariaDB’s goals is that it should be easily available for download. While we provide binaries and source at the MariaDB download page<\/a>, we would love to see the binaries sitting in Linux distributions. So it is definitely good to see that it is on the Debian wishlist<\/a>. It is also worth noting that Ubuntu has got it as a wishlist item<\/a> as well.<\/p>\n

MariaDB via the OpenSUSE build service<\/b>
\nA community member, Michal Hru\u00c5\u00a1eck\u00c3\u00bd, has decided that there will be tracking of MariaDB<\/a>, and since it comes out of the OpenSUSE build service, you can find them in the unstable repository<\/a>, for CentOS\/RHEL 5, Fedora 11 and 12, Mandriva 2010, and OpenSUSE 11.1, 11.2, and the factory builds. All these are of course of the latest release available, which is MariaDB 5.1.42<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MariaDB for Solaris 10 and Debian on SPARC<\/b>
\nMark<\/a> has very kindly decided to build binaries for Solaris 10 on Sparc<\/a> as well as Debian GNU\/Linux on Sparc<\/a>. He even managed to write up a quick & dirty install guide<\/a>, which should suffice for all intents and purposes. Note that these are still 5.1.41-RC releases, and you can expect to get updates soon for the released 5.1.42.<\/p>\n

Using MariaDB with the MySQL Sandbox<\/b>
\nThe MySQL Sandbox<\/a> is a great way to play with new releases of MySQL or MariaDB. Gerry Narvaja has got some tricks up his sleeve, to allow you to get going using MariaDB with the MySQL Sandbox<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MariaDB resources<\/b>
\nA few resources if you’re new to the community:<\/p>\n