Hi :) MariaDb's stated aims were to remain a "drop in replacement" for MySql. It's not easy!
Distros, especially gateway ones (for people new to Gnu&Linux) often have a whole load of apps already installed. It's usually fairly easy to install others but many people are likely to stick with the default apps unless they find a good reason to change. So, when pretty much all distros swapped-out OpenOffice and started having LibreOffice as their default office suite they effectively moved from OpenOffice to LibreOffice. Much the same is happening with MariaDb. Regards from Tom :) On 4 July 2014 13:07, Tanstaafl <tansta...@libertytrek.org> wrote: > On 7/4/2014 7:45 AM, Vitorio Delage wrote: > >> Because MariaDB is a fork, so very compatible with MySQL (at least in the >> first versions) >> > > Mariadb has been around for a long time, and is still billed as a drop-in > replacement for mysql, I don't think that is supposed to be changing any > time soon. > > In gentoo, it was as simple as emerge -c mysql and emerge mariadb. I put > it off for a long time out of fear, and it was pretty much a non-event. > > As for how a distro moves from one dbms to another, this question displays > ignorance about how distro s work. > > Pretty much all distros have 'default' system packages, including DB's. > distros who have always used mysql as their default have been switching to > mariadb as the new default. Doesn't mean you can choose something else > (mysql, or postgresql, etc)... > > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to- > unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: users+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
