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For anyone doing their first contribution to MariaDB: start out by learning how the mariadb-test-run command works and how to efficiently rebuild the MariaDB sources and re-run the test suite.

 

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 tracker.

 

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 tracker.

 

MariaDB's new AppArmor profile is now enforcing in Debian unstable. If you are a dba/sysadmin familiar with AppArmor and using MariaDB, check your logs and share feedback via the Debian bug tracker.

 

MariaDB's new AppArmor profile is now enforcing in Debian unstable. If you are a dba/sysadmin familiar with AppArmor and using MariaDB, check your logs and share feedback via the Debian bug tracker.

 

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 tracker.

[–] otto@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

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.

[–] otto@programming.dev 3 points 1 month ago

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

 

After comparing several of these directories, seems https://euro-stack.com/ is the most comprehensive. I also like that it allows to filter by both being European and open source.

It is also made by the same people who run https://eurostack.eu/ and who got a lot of visibility delivering the https://euro-stackletter.eu/ letter to President Von der Leyen a year ago. Hopefully they settle soon on what is their primary domain :)

 

After comparing several of these directories, seems https://euro-stack.com/ is the most comprehensive. I also like that it allows to filter by both being European and open source.

It is also made by the same people who run https://eurostack.eu/ and who got a lot of visibility delivering the https://euro-stackletter.eu/ letter to President Von der Leyen a year ago. Hopefully they settle soon on what is their primary domain :)

[–] otto@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Elsewhere people seem to be recommending https://euro-stack.com/ as the most comprehensive directory

[–] otto@programming.dev 1 points 1 month ago

Elsewhere people seem to be recommending https://euro-stack.com/ as the most comprehensive directory

 

Yet another directory of European tech alternatives: https://eutechmap.com/ 🇪🇺

There quite a few of these now. Which directory do you think is the best one to recommend/promote?

 

Yet another directory of European tech alternatives: https://eutechmap.com/ 🇪🇺

There quite a few of these now. Which directory do you think is the best one to recommend/promote?

 

Univeristy student keen to gain open source skills this summer? If you, or someone you know, want to contribute to Debian with Google's sponsorship, explore the GSoC 2026 project ideas now: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2026/Projects

Applications open until end of March - look into project ideas already this weekend!

 

Univeristy student keen to gain open source skills this summer? If you, or someone you know, want to contribute to Debian with Google's sponsorship, explore the GSoC 2026 project ideas now: https://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2026/Projects

Applications open until end of March - look into project ideas already this weekend!

[–] otto@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

There’s a priest, a baby and a bag of candy. I need to take them across the river but I can only take one at a time into my boat. In what order should I transport them?

You can easily use the link https://openrouter.ai/chat?models=anthropic%2Fclaude-opus-4.6%2Copenai%2Fgpt-5.2%2Cx-ai%2Fgrok-4.1-fast%2Cgoogle%2Fgemini-3.1-pro-preview%2Cz-ai%2Fglm-5%2Cminimax%2Fminimax-m2.5%2Cqwen%2Fqwen3.5-plus-02-15%2Cmoonshotai%2Fkimi-k2.5 to ask all flagship models this question in parallel. Personally I would definitely not leave my children alone with a priest (they might try to convert them), but if your constraint is only baby+candy, then in my test Gemini, GLM, Qwen and Kimi made that, and only that, assumption.

[–] otto@programming.dev 0 points 1 month ago

Actually I set out with the assumption that flagship models would fail even on these fairly simple questions that I have seen them failing on before, but I was suprised they didn't all fail.

[–] otto@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

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

[–] otto@programming.dev 16 points 2 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] otto@programming.dev -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I welcome more paid schemes, such as Ubuntu Pro, as I believe it is beneficial for the whole ecosystem.

[–] otto@programming.dev 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

In case you are Czech, there is a translation at https://www.root.cz/clanky/prestante-uz-pouzivat-mysql-neni-to-skutecny-open-source/?nahled=1

Glad to see more translations show up!

[–] otto@programming.dev 2 points 5 months ago

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.

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