Is Linux from Finland or from the USA? If someting is open source and has a global contributor base and no single entity can subvert it, then I don’t really think the country matters. But it there is one entity that controls it, then it matters where it is from and what jurisdiction and what policies apply on it.

It is a screenshot of the filter option that allows to select both “European” and “open source” for people like who want both.

Elsewhere people seem to be recommending https://euro-stack.com/ as the most comprehensive directory

Elsewhere people seem to be recommending https://euro-stack.com/ as the most comprehensive directory

There’s a priest, a baby and a bag of candy. I need to take them across the river but I can only take one at a time into my boat. In what order should I transport them?

You can easily use the link https://openrouter.ai/chat?models=anthropic%2Fclaude-opus-4.6%2Copenai%2Fgpt-5.2%2Cx-ai%2Fgrok-4.1-fast%2Cgoogle%2Fgemini-3.1-pro-preview%2Cz-ai%2Fglm-5%2Cminimax%2Fminimax-m2.5%2Cqwen%2Fqwen3.5-plus-02-15%2Cmoonshotai%2Fkimi-k2.5 to ask all flagship models this question in parallel. Personally I would definitely not leave my children alone with a priest (they might try to convert them), but if your constraint is only baby+candy, then in my test Gemini, GLM, Qwen and Kimi made that, and only that, assumption.

Actually I set out with the assumption that flagship models would fail even on these fairly simple questions that I have seen them failing on before, but I was suprised they didn’t all fail.

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.

I welcome more paid schemes, such as Ubuntu Pro, as I believe it is beneficial for the whole ecosystem.

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.

Exactly. I don’t use Omarchy, but I think it is good someone did a polished distro for a specific use case, and some web dev Windows users will surely find it more appealing than a generic distro where they need to figure out a lot of stuff from scratch.

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.

TLS is good *only’ if you are also validating those certs. And that is what MariaDB 11.8 is now doing.

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

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

“Unicode as default character set” - finally, nice!

Blog is better than reading GitHub: https://mariadb.org/11-8-lts-released/