Two major open-source projects, Fedora and openSUSE, are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead. The Fedora project’s wiki says that the decision to ...

For database developers and managers, this change shouldn't be a problem. MariaDB, a MySQL fork founded by the original MySQL developers, is designed to be a drop-in replacement for the MySQL Database ...

Jaroslav Reznik, who is Red Hat's Fedora project manager, proposed the change. Reznik explained that he was suggesting this move because, "The original company behind MySQL, MySQL AB, were bought out ...

The two major open source projects are planning to ditch the venerable Oracle MySQL database framework and adopt MariaDB instead Two major open-source projects, Fedora and OpenSuse, are planning to ...