Longest Running Linux Distribution Slackware Adopts MariaDB

First time accepted submitter Gerardo Zamudio writes with the news that Ur-distribution Slackware is replacing MySQL with MariaDB. From an update posted to the Slackware news feed yesterday: "This shouldn't really be a surprise on any level. The poll on LQ showed a large majority of our users were in favor of the change. It's my belief that the MariaDB Foundation will do a better job with the code, be more responsive to security concerns, and be more willing to work with the open source community. And while I don't think there is currently any issue with MySQL's licensing of the community edition for commercial uses, several threads on LQ showed that there is confusion about this, whereas with MariaDB the freedom to use the software is quite clear." (Here's a link to the mentioned poll.)

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[Anonymous Coward]

Say what you will about Oracle, but they know a thing or two about databases. Mighty Wideanus (who originally created MySQL and then forked it to MariaDB) has an abysmal track record (ie, MySQL and MariaDB). MySQL was only usable due to InnoDB (also owned by Oracle), a third party MySQL database storage engine that reimplemented everything since MySQL did it wrong.

For a simple, single access database, use SQLite. For anything else, use Postgres. There just isn't a use case for MariaDB.