Hi :) MariaDb is a fairly recent fork of MySqL in much the same way as LibreOffice is a 'fairly recent' fork of OpenOffice. Lots of development and a very active community surging forwards and creating an excellent product.
Apparently MariaDb / MySql might be a lot heftier than most people need but it might be a great move for corporate organisations. This is something i particularly like about Base. It is highly scalable and suits a very wide range of needs because it is so adaptable and can be an excellent front-end for so many different circumstances. I kept meaning to forward their recent announcement. Regards from Tom :) --- On Mon, 26/9/11, MariaDB Announce List <[email protected]> wrote: From: MariaDB Announce List <> Subject: [MariaDB Announce] MariaDB 5.2.9 released Date: Monday, 26 September, 2011, 14:53 The MariaDB project would like to announce the immediate availability of MariaDB 5.2.9, the latest iteration of the 5.2 series. The release notes are available from: * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-529-release-notes A complete changelog is available from: * http://kb.askmonty.org/en/mariadb-529-changelog Sources, binaries and packages can be downloaded from: * http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/5.2.9/ Debian and Ubuntu packages are available from repositories. A sources.list generator can be found at: * http://downloads.askmonty.org/mariadb/repositories/ MariaDB code hosting is on Launchpad: * https://launchpad.net/maria The project always strives for quality, but in reality nothing is perfect. Please take time to report any issues you encounter. * https://bugs.launchpad.net/maria We would also like to mention the release of the first MariaDB-specific book: MariaDB Crash Course, by Ben Forta. This book -- for beginner to intermediate level users -- will get you up and running with MariaDB, even if you've never used a database before. More information is available at: http://forta.com/books/0321799941/ Feel free to join the maria-discuss and/or maria-developers groups on Launchpad, or use #maria on Freenode IRC. And please, enjoy 5.2.9! -- Daniel Bartholomew MariaDB - http://mariadb.org Monty Program - http://montyprogram.com AskMonty Knowledgebase - http://kb.askmonty.org -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: [email protected] 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
