Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB

Posted by Unknown on Tuesday January 22, 2013 @01:04AM from the take-that-mr-ellison dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Red Hat developers are planning to replace MySQL with MariaDB in Fedora 19. For the next Fedora update, the MariaDB fork would replace MySQL and the official MySQL package would be discontinued after some time. The reasoning for this move is the uncertainty about Oracle's support of MySQL as an open-source project and moves to make the database more closed." Update: 01/22 13:47 GMT by T : Note: "Nixing" may be a bit strong; this move has been proposed, but is not yet officially decided.

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Fedora 19 Nixing MySQL in Favor of MariaDB

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