Poll: MySQL on Debian or Ubuntu?
Posted by Keith Murphy on Nov 3, 2008
I have put up a poll on my personal blog, Diamond Notes asking whether you prefer Ubuntu or Debian as an operating system for MySQL server. I am curious because I have seen a shift in the last year of Debian users to the Ubuntu distribution, and I would like to put some actual numbers to what I am seeing. (Please don’t vote if you use another OS or another Linux distribution, as I am strictly interested in the usage patterns of these two operating systems.)
Thanks,
Keith.
For OurDelta downloads, Hardy and Etch are about the same right now.
They also seem to be more popular than CentOS, but *that* is probably a warped statistic since people get CentOS packages from elsewhere also, whereas Ubuntu and Debian packages are rare to non-existent.
We prefer debian over ubuntu. We also started deploying Gentoo and are actually happy with it.
Hands down Debian. Sure, its a little more out of date compared to all other distros, but its rock solid. I have been a long time Debian user and I sware by it.
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I’m not a big advocate of any particular distro, to be honest, but I’d say if you’re going to run mysql on ubuntu, build it from source. I noticed when I tested mysql on ubuntu server that it had some kind of wacky distro-specific configuration going on that affected the startup and operation of the daemon. I don’t remember the details, but I seem to remember thinking that the maintainers added a custom user to the server (in the mysql table was my impression at the time), and I did not appreciate the alteration.
Brian — I’ve noticed that the default my.cnf on Ubuntu (and perhaps Debian too?) whose very last line is an include directive.
But you don’t need to build from source to change that.