Note that MariaDB defaults to using mysql as the service name, rather than mysqld, which is used by the standard MySQL packages. At this point, we should have a functional MariaDB server instance.

SAN JOSE, CA--(Marketwire - Nov 29, 2012) - SkySQL, the trusted provider of open source database solutions, and Monty Program, the home of MariaDB, owned by MySQL®-database-creator Monty Widenius ...

Both Fedora and openSUSE will be replacing Oracle's MySQL with its open-source fork--MariaDB. Written by Steven Vaughan-Nichols, Senior Contributing Editor Jan. 31, 2013, 12:55 p.m. PT ...

That would mean Fedora might switch over as early as May 2013. In any case, "MySQL will continue to be available for at least one release, but MariaDB will become the default.

If you've never backed up your MySQL or MariaDB databases, now's the time. Jack Wallen shows you how to back up that data and restore it, in case your website has met an untimely demise.