Coming from a great MariaDB contributor, Mark, is:
For all of those linux users out there that have moved over to, or tried out, Solaris10 or OpenSolaris because they heard the tales of how MySQL is faster on Solaris… or perhaps you wanted to learn how to use Sol10 for the great features of Zones or the ZFS filesystem? Regardless of why you’re on it you are probably wondering why Linux has colored output of filenames and directories but Solaris does not. The question of ‘why?’ isn’t important, but how to enable colors is. It’s very simple, and here’s how I fixed it. This is a result of digging through multiple semi-related links on Google.
Topics for this podcast:
*The latest in VC funding for open source
*VMware’s SpringSource buys cloud messenger Rabbit
*Open source monitoring vendors’ key cloud partnershps
*Oracle moves ahead, back on MySQL, OpenSolaris
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Oracle outlines MySQL plans. Datameer launches with Series A funding. And more.
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# Oracle confirmed InnoDB as the default MySQL storage engine, Hot Backup to become part of MySQL Enterprise and announced MySQL Cluster 7.1.
# Datameer launched Analytics Solution, which combines Hadoop with a spreadsheet interface, and also closed a $2.5m Series A round of funding from Redpoint Ventures.
# Infobright announced that it grew its customers base from 50 to …
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Gentoo
It started with Brian Evans’ github
repository, some good instructions on the mailing list for
Building MariaDB on Gentoo, to a request for packaging, and guess what? Its now
officially in Gentoo! Thanks Brian, and
Robin Johnson!
SPARC builds – Debian, Solaris
Mark has now got a MariaDB category on his blog and the
interesting things for you to grab are: …
I recently received a question from Robin Schumacher at Calpont, the makers of the InfiniDB analytics database engine for MySQL: "How would you recommend we try and get bundled in with the various Linux distros?"
Since this question has come up several times before, I thought it might make sense to blog about my take on this.
First of all, please note that there is a difference between "being part of the core distribution" and "being available from a distributor's package repository". The latter one is relatively easy, the former can be hard, as you need to convince the distributor that your application is worth devoting engineering resources to maintain and support your application as part of their product. It's also a space issue – distributions need to make sure that the core packages still fit on the installation …
[Read more]The aims of this kind of blog post is simple – I want to help keep the masses informed as to what’s happening with MariaDB, as a whole. There is a community growing, and MariaDB is a community project, not necessarily a Monty Program Ab baby (and we’re clear on this distinction: think of it like Canonical/Ubuntu). So, think of it as such that I’m sharing the good news, and summarising what’s been happening, to save you time.
MariaDB added to the Debian/Ubuntu wishlists
One of MariaDB’s goals is that it should be easily available for
download. While we provide binaries and source at the MariaDB download page, we would love to see
the binaries sitting in Linux distributions. So it is definitely
good to see that it is on …
Chrooted environments are known to greatly improve system and
application security by providing them with a higher degree of
isolation. The objective is to separate as much as possible from
other executables and resources the runtime environment of an
application so that if a hacker get access to it,the rest of the
system is not compromised. This technic is commonly used with
MySQL.
Traditionally, the chrooting applies at the file system level, by creating a separated and minimal operating system disk-image. The operation consists in creating a set of directories (such a /chroot/etc, /chroot/tmp, /chroot/var/tmp, /chroot/usr/local/mysql etc.) and duplicate a minimal number of binary and configuration files into this new directory tree. After setting the right permissions on the new directories, the chrootuid utility is used to execute the application in the restricted environment. …
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Chrooted environments are known to greatly improve system and
application security by providing them with a higher degree of
isolation. The objective is to separate as much as possible from
other executables and resources the runtime environment of an
application so that if a hacker get access to it,the rest of the
system is not compromised. This technic is commonly used with
MySQL.
Traditionally, the chrooting applies at the file system level, by creating a separated and minimal operating system disk-image. The operation consists in creating a set of directories (such a /chroot/etc, /chroot/tmp, /chroot/var/tmp, /chroot/usr/local/mysql etc.) and duplicate a minimal number of binary and configuration files into this new directory tree. After setting the right permissions on the new directories, the chrootuid utility is used to execute the application in the restricted environment. …
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Chrooted environments are known to greatly improve system and
application security by providing them with a higher degree of
isolation. The objective is to separate as much as possible from
other executables and resources the runtime environment of an
application so that if a hacker get access to it,the rest of the
system is not compromised. This technic is commonly used with
MySQL.
Traditionally, the chrooting applies at the file system level, by creating a separated and minimal operating system disk-image. The operation consists in creating a set of directories (such a /chroot/etc, /chroot/tmp, /chroot/var/tmp, /chroot/usr/local/mysql etc.) and duplicate a minimal number of binary and configuration files into this new directory tree. After setting the right permissions on the new directories, the chrootuid utility is used to execute the application in the restricted environment. …
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