Mar 25 2013 Slackware and Arch Linux switch to MariaDB as a default Posted by Colin Charles of Monty Program Group Blog on Mon 25 Mar 2013 22:30 UTC Tags: community, planet mysql, archlinux, slackware Two bits of good news for MariaDB users from the distribution standpoint this week: Slackware Linux is dropping MySQL for MariaDB as a default Arch Linux replaces MySQL in repositories with MariaDB Search MySQL Links MySQL Downloads MySQL Docs MySQL Bugs MySQL Forums