MariaDB has a lot of users, and they should be more vocal about it to give it more visibility.

I wouldn’t be surprised to see multiple MySQL forks emerge in 2026, now that more people are realizing how bad Oracle has been as an open source project steward for MySQL.

I welcome more paid schemes, such as Ubuntu Pro, as I believe it is beneficial for the whole ecosystem.

In case you are Czech, there is a translation at https://www.root.cz/clanky/prestante-uz-pouzivat-mysql-neni-to-skutecny-open-source/?nahled=1

Glad to see more translations show up!

There was a bunch of luck involved that Andres Freund detected this. Give more time, it would have ended up in stable releases eventually if not detected.

Exactly. I don’t use Omarchy, but I think it is good someone did a polished distro for a specific use case, and some web dev Windows users will surely find it more appealing than a generic distro where they need to figure out a lot of stuff from scratch.

To me it is hard to find the best apps in their directory as they don’t have a good ranking system. The other sites that rank by GitHub stars do a pretty good job of surfacing what are the truly most popular and successful apps.

TLS is good *only’ if you are also validating those certs. And that is what MariaDB 11.8 is now doing.

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Seems there are also https://www.opensourcealternative.to/, https://euroalternative.co/ and https://european-alternatives.eu/

Seems there are also https://www.opensourcealternative.to/, https://euroalternative.co/ and https://european-alternatives.eu/

“Unicode as default character set” - finally, nice!

Blog is better than reading GitHub: https://mariadb.org/11-8-lts-released/

Also, if you like MariaDB, show your support and help it get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server

Also, if you like MariaDB, show your support and help it get to 10k stars at https://github.com/MariaDB/Server

I can’t setup a ‘default user’ (only root), but there is now a MR adding exact commands you can copy-paste in a README: https://salsa.debian.org/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/115

I am asking for general strategies, not for a solution to a specific case.

By UV 3000 you probably don’t mean the ultraviolet lamp that is the first page of Google is full of when searching with this term…? I doubt UV - whatever it is - is a common approach.

What do you mean a default user? You can just run ‘mariadb’ to access to console with the same user that had permissions to run ‘apt install’.

For your actual application you need to plan what database name to use, what user, what permissions it needs, potentially remote connection and TLS etc. This indeed is some work and could perhaps be automated a bit, but it also needs sysadmin to make some decisions.

Yes, increasing the InnoDB buffer pool to use all available memory is the most important configuration change a sysadmin can do. But in order to do it, you need to know if the host is dedicated to one MariaDB instance or if there are multiple servers on the same host. Otherwise you would just have processes each hogging more memory when they can and not giving it up to others.

I could think about having a dialog during the installation that asks something like “Is host dedicated to this MariaDB instance? If yes, automatically configure it to use most of the system RAM available.”