Comments on: Poll: MySQL on Debian or Ubuntu?

By: Sheeri K. Cabral

Sheeri K. Cabral — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 18:22:06 +0000

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.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 21:17:20 +0000

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.

By: Log Buffer #122: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs

Log Buffer #122: a Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:26:50 +0000

[...] at the polls this week. In keeping with this, Keith Murphy is polling for opinion on the question: MySQL on Debian or Ubuntu? The conversation is here; the poll is on Keith’s Diamond [...]

By: Joseph Engo

Joseph Engo — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 18:45:54 +0000

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 Sure, its a little more out of date compared to all other distros, but its rock solid.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.

By: Pavel

Pavel — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:02:01 +0000

We prefer debian over ubuntu. We also started deploying Gentoo and are actually happy with it.

By: Arjen Lentz

Arjen Lentz — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 22:22:33 +0000

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.