From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from <gentoo-user+bounces-135757-garchives=archives.gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org>) id 1S3CvN-0000qT-49 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2012 20:48:29 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C2CB7E062D; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 20:48:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a48.g.dreamhost.com (caibbdcaaaaf.dreamhost.com [208.113.200.5]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 459F4E062D for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 20:47:12 +0000 (UTC) Received: from homiemail-a48.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a48.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id A25C24F805C for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:47:11 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=libertytrek.org; h=message-id :date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type: content-transfer-encoding; q=dns; s=libertytrek.org; b=sdGxcfAH1 CJTshOfjmCs2l6fQyLTkwner8qUZS+2mKyu8uONn5D86+wAsl0ap6RA7h8EQO2WF ZtPPkOdjVPJugIzTEVLLwr2VkbnCREM16Vi3oSKxSXlHnlmPHP/14XU4q4Ttldjn tbFVcFRvPuD+2NSpKpJD/O4PmjA+53xxKU= DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed; d=libertytrek.org; h= message-id:date:from:mime-version:to:subject:content-type: content-transfer-encoding; s=libertytrek.org; bh=jISbGtJ7MfngiBq BonGiufofzMo=; b=vz/2UuZQWkASPcEuXPXPmthiGP70DOp2SzhMfjvxedDNXoC /VI9KVSU7Uc11wc5Jhi72LUvgYg+57DzqAnwckx/7J3c5/ll3tiSI3PnlXNdueg3 oamvTrr/k2CXPfvKEsG0MpkfyM9Vxo1YCtyCpTUjeg5PQ2GmHLTCEhWvrSxU= Received: from [127.0.0.1] (50-76-228-201-static.hfc.comcastbusiness.net [50.76.228.201]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: tanstaafl@libertytrek.org) by homiemail-a48.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6DD4D4F8058 for <gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org>; Thu, 1 Mar 2012 12:47:11 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4F4FE04B.9080900@libertytrek.org> Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2012 15:47:07 -0500 From: Tanstaafl <tanstaafl@libertytrek.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:10.0.2) Gecko/20120216 Thunderbird/10.0.2 Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-user+help@lists.gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+unsubscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-user+subscribe@lists.gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-user.gentoo.org> X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] MySQL > MariaDB - is it time? Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 07a0a0d1-fbcf-4cf0-8f7b-87197c1a5631 X-Archives-Hash: c963379dab1cb79939e8f37a93034300 Hi all, I just came across this thread today on the MariaDB discuss list about the poor stewardship of Oracle with respect to MySQL (and it references Oracle's track record of poor handling of the FLOSS projects it inherited when it bought Sun): https://lists.launchpad.net/maria-discuss/msg00514.html In it is discussed - among many other things including lots of good reason *why* - the possibility of replacing MySQL with MariaDB in anticipation of Oracle's current poor stewardship of MySQL... My question is - shouldn't gentoo be considering this move as well? I've been seriously considering this for my own servers for some time, and after reading this, I think it is time to stop thinking about it and just do it, but I'm a bit nervous - ianap, and don't want to shoot myself in the foot in the process. Anyone here ever done the switch want to share their experience?