Hi, As you all likely know, at mageia we replaced MySQL with MariaDB.
When MariaDB devs told me that it seemed their biggest market was Windows, I was really astounded. They then referred me to the feedback plug and this statistics page: http://mariadb.org/feedback_plugin/stats/os/ The explanation is quite simple: - Windows users need to download the version from MariaDB site (which has feedback enabled by default). - Linux users can get it from MariaDB site, or from their own distro. (and those versions don't have feedback enabled by default at all...) (for good reason). Still, the numbers are completely wrong, and therefor, i urge all of you to load the feedback plugin for all servers you manage! so that these statistics can better influence both MariaDB and Mageia. How to enable feedback plugin? easy: 1. install mariadb-feedback package 2. load it in your config file, by adding it to your plugin-load line: (in /etc/my.cnf ) plugin_dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin plugin-load=ha_archive.so;ha_blackhole.so;ha_federatedx.so;feedback.so 3. if possible, if you're using KDE, your akonadi also uses mariadb. so you can add this to your akonadi mariadb config file too, in mysqld section: (in ~/.local/share/akonadi/mysql.conf ) [mysqld] plugin_dir=/usr/lib64/mysql/plugin plugin-load=feedback.so then restart akonadi with (akonadictl restart) thanks in advance, AL13N (mageia mariadb maintainer)
