It was just last week that Fedora Linux 18 “Spherical Cow” made its official debut, but since then the Red Hat-supported distribution has been all over the news for a variety of reasons, not all of them complimentary.

First came the news that the Fedora Linux project is considering ousting the MySQL database management system (DBMS).

“We would like to replace MySQL with MariaDB in the early development cycle for Fedora 19,” wrote developer Jaroslav Reznik in a message on the developer e-mail list.

Since changes in Fedora often show up later in Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), such a change could have big ramifications down the road, particularly for businesses.

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