MariaDB is a community-developed fork of the MySQL relational database management system, the impetus being the community maintenance of its free status under the GNU GPL. As a fork of a leading open source software system, it is notable for being led by its original developers and triggered by concerns over direction by an acquiring commercial company Oracle. Contributors are required to share their copyright with Monty Program AB.
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Migrate from MySQL to MariaDB in FreeBSD
FreeBSD Still Working On Next-Gen Package Manager
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-RC2
Glen Barber has announced the availability of the second release candidate for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the project’s legacy branch: “The second RC build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. If….![]()
AMD Kernel Mode-Setting Continues On FreeBSD
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-RC1
Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first release candidate for FreeBSD 8.4, the upcoming new stable version of the project’s legacy branch: “The first RC build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. If….![]()
AMD Kernel Mode-Setting Progresses For FreeBSD
Development Release: FreeBSD 8.4-BETA1
Glen Barber has announced the availability of the first beta build of FreeBSD 8.4, in the project’s legacy branch: “The first BETA build of the 8.4-RELEASE release cycle is now available on the FTP servers for the amd64, i386, and pc98 architectures. Since the stable/8 branch is relatively….![]()
FreeBSD Works On AMD KMS, BHyVe, Clang
The FreeBSD Q4’2012 status report has been issued to update its users and other stakeholders on the state of this BSD operating system…
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BHyVe: A New Hypervisor Coming To FreeBSD 10.0
BHyVe is a legacy-free hypervisor being developed by FreeBSD developers that was recently merged into mainline to be part of the FreeBSD 10.0 release. The BHyVe virtualization hypervisor relies upon Intel VT-x and already has several interesting features as it aims to be truly legacy-free, high-performance, while being contained within a very small footprint…
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FreeBSD Works On C11, C++11 Support
FreeBSD developers are working on enabling support for the C11 and C++11 programming language standards within their operating system…
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