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MariaDB’s new AppArmor profile is now enforcing in Debian unstable and heading to Ubuntu 26.04. If you are a dba/sysadmin, check your logs and share feedback via the Debian bug tra…

It's an open source venture backed by $35M from FirstMark Capital, Spark Capital, and GV (Google Ventures). It's a drop-in replacement for MySQL with an extension architecture. See…

Lemmy discussion at https://programming.dev/post/43869104 is wild :)

Pecona also writes in https://www.percona.com/blog/analyzing-the-heartbeat-of-the-... : "The overall trend since 2011 shows a sustained decline in the number of commits and a shrin…

Depends entirely on the app and use case. For apps that expect PostgreSQL probably Yugabyte, and for apps that expect MySQL probalby TiDB.

Thanks!

Git is the industry standard for software development, but I thasn’t been fully adopted in Debian packaging yet. Debian development is still based on uploading tarballs via FTP. I …

This is the upstream source control. The article talks about the Debian packaging source not being in git (on e.g. salsa.debian.org).

How did the changes in the binary test files tests/files/bad-3-corrupt_lzma2.xz and tests/files/good-large_compressed.lzma, and the makefile change in m4/build-to-host.m4) manifest…

TiDB has come a long way in 10 years! Most large (open source) MySQL systems today running either TiDB or Vitess, and many cloud providers seem to be copying TiDB's architecture in…

This is nice for those tired of wrestling with TLS certs and CAs for your database

Just launched: https://mariadb.com/products/cloud/ "Serverless tier is free forever for experimenting and small development projects" Has anyone already tried this out? Initial tho…

This is an absolute gem in finding what are the trending state-of-the-art open source programs. I have found so many cool open source projects I feel addicted to browsing more..

If you currently run `apt install debcraft` in Ubuntu, you will get the tool built by me. It has largely the same goals as Canonical has expressed in this and similar docs, but no …

Thanks for sharing!

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