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.

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

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.

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!

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.

To me it is hard to find the best apps in their directory as they don’t have a good ranking system. The other sites that rank by GitHub stars do a pretty good job of surfacing what are the truly most popular and successful apps.

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/mariadb-team/mariadb-server/-/merge_requests/115

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.

You mean ollama? There are so many options, any favorites?