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Installing MySQL: A Tale of Two Platforms

Before I begin here, be warned: one of the links I'm pointing to here is NSFW. That means "NOT SAFE FOR WORK", and in this case it means that the page contains vulgar language and profantiy. If you're easily offended or are at work, you may want to go do something else now.

Here's the story:

On November 10, this article was posted: Installing MySQL on Mac OS X. A well-written, comprehensive, detailed and in-depth how-to article that anyone who wants to get MySQL going on OS X would be happy to stumble over.

The guy who wrote it, Dan Benjamin, seems a talented and very nice fellow, and he went to a great deal of trouble to put the article together.

I'm guessing that sometime shortly after that article got posted, Mark Pilgrim read it and decided that running MySQL on a Mac seemed like a lot work--much more than using it on Linux.

Then, Mark wrote his own "answer", contrasting, how-to Installing MySQL on Ubuntu (the NSFW way). This article is NSFW. But it's also hilarious as H-E-double-hockey-sticks, and it looks to be just as useful as the first article.

If you're worried about the foul language in the second article, I'll summarize: installing MySQL on OS X sounds like an incredibly complicated and scary adventure; installing it on an Ubuntu Linux box sounds like a walk in the park.

The funny thing is, we just got an iMac. And I just installed MySQL on an Ubuntu Linux system. I don't anticipate installing it on the iMac, so I'm enjoying this on multiple levels.

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