MySQL Quietly Drops Support For Debian Linux

[Hodgins Family]

On Wed, 2006-13-12 at 22:28 +0000, John wrote:
> Gerry Visel wrote:
> > From Slashdot:
> > Posted by kdawson on Wednesday December 13, @10:35AM
> > from the any-color-as-long-as-it's-black dept.
> >
> > Databases Debian Linux volts writes "MySQL quietly deprecated support
> > for most Linux distributions on October 16, when its 'MySQL Network'
> > support plan was replaced by 'MySQL Enterprise.' MySQL now supports
> > only two Linux distributions — Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux
> > Enterprise Server. We learned of this when MySQL declined to sell us
> > support for some new Debian-based servers. Our sales rep 'found out
> > from engineering that the current Enterprise offering is no longer
> > supported on Debian OS.' We were told that 'Generic Linux' in MySQL's
> > list of supported platforms means 'generic versions of the
> > implementations listed above'; not support for Linux in general."
> >
> >   
> Time to migrate from LAmP to LAPP? (PostgreSQL)

Must have missed something here? This link
http://www.mysql.com/support/supportedplatforms/enterprise.html

shows that Sarge is still supported.
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