{"id":2739,"date":"2013-06-07T04:06:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:06:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/?p=2739"},"modified":"2013-06-07T04:06:49","modified_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:06:49","slug":"mariadb-in-red-hat-software-collections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bytebot.net\/blog\/archives\/2013\/06\/07\/mariadb-in-red-hat-software-collections","title":{"rendered":"MariaDB in Red Hat Software Collections"},"content":{"rendered":"

Towards the end of last year, I was asked to investigate the Red Hat Software Collections by someone that popped by one of my talks. SkySQL<\/a> has been working heavily with Red Hat<\/a>, and with Fedora 19 shipping<\/a> MariaDB as a default, it seems like MariaDB is getting even more distribution. The Red Hat Software Collections 1.0 Beta<\/a> is now available for users of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.<\/p>\n

From a database standpoint, users now get MariaDB 5.5. I encourage all to try it, as it is an in-situ upgrade. It is described as:<\/p>\n

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MariaDB version 5.5, which introduces an easy-to-adopt alternative for MySQL for Red Hat Enterprise Linux users. Binary compatibility allows MySQL users to drop-in MariaDB without converting data files.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Sweet. But for database users, it also includes MySQL 5.5 (better than 5.1.69), and PostgreSQL 9.2 (better than 8.4.13). After listening to Rasmus Lerdorf talk about PHP 5.4, I’m glad that I can now use it with RHEL6.<\/p>\n

I wonder if there will be CentOS Software Collections as well?<\/p>\n

Read an article in PCWorld about Software Collections<\/a>\u00a0(see a press release<\/a> too). There’s some developer documentation<\/a> from Red Hat, and some draft documentation<\/a> from Fedora too.<\/p>\n

Thanks SkySQL<\/a>,\u00a0Team MariaDB<\/a>\u00a0and Red Hat<\/a>!<\/p>\n

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