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.

See also https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/announcing-mentoring-mondays/81414

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.

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.

Seems there are also https://www.opensourcealternative.to/, https://euroalternative.co/ and https://european-alternatives.eu/

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.

MariaDB supports Galera clustering out-of-the-box, and also traditional primary/replica setups. But you need to have something that spans multiple hosts to monitor and manage it, and that is outside of what a single-host OS package management system can do.

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

We just need specific portals for sharing that remember your homeserver. See for example https://mastodonshare.com/.