For those of you who either have no plans for a Lucid upgrade or you cannot wait, I have been using the MariaDB/OurDelta binaries from their PPA (read http://ourdelta.org/ubuntu for more info). I have been using it for 2 months now, without issue. It is a viable alternative for those of you who were using the Ubuntu MySQL package for development and not production deployments.
For those of you who either have no plans for a Lucid upgrade or you cannot wait, I have been using the MariaDB/OurDelta binaries from their PPA (read http:// ourdelta. org/ubuntu for more info). I have been using it for 2 months now, without issue. It is a viable alternative for those of you who were using the Ubuntu MySQL package for development and not production deployments.