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.

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

I just prefix all my git aliases with g-. So for status I type g-s.

I had the same feeling until I started using gitk. I always have a gitk window open and press F5 to reload, so it shows me the state of everything after I've run git commands. Now I grasp everything much better.

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.

Is Linux from Finland or from the USA? If someting is open source and has a global contributor base and no single entity can subvert it, then I don't really think the country matters. But it there is one entity that controls it, then it matters where it is from and what jurisdiction and what policies apply on it.

It is a screenshot of the filter option that allows to select both "European" and "open source" for people like who want both.

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

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.

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.

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.

You need bisect only as a last resort. Effective use of git blame, git log -p -S etc has always been enough for me. Also, the projects I work with take 10+ minutes to compile even when cached, so doing tens of builds to bisect is much slower than just hunting for strings in git commits and code.

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

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

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/...

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."

Yes but not 'slop' as bunch of effort went into it. I am happy to consider a new logo if you send me your suggestion.

Try again tomorrow, seems it got popular today

Only product from Microsoft I actually like using and trust. Quality from 1998, and still going :)

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