Also, regarding your “Proliant DL360p Gen8 & DLP380 Gen9” blades… I also have (well, my office has) about 8 or 9 of those in various states of “repair and disrepair” and the week before you started this thread I had installed VMware 6.7 on one of them to solve an issue for someone to retrieve some old VMs that were lost out there… yada yada…
Anyway, while you now have me curious what it would be like to install Debian “bare metal” on them, I wanted to suggest that you try putting Proxmox on one.
https://pve.proxmox.com/wiki/Main_Page
It’s like VMware, but open source. I know it might seem a bit daunting but it will allow you have to dozens of “virtual machines” on the blade instead of “just one bare metal OS”. The benefits are AMAZING…just search YouTube for “proxmox install” to get you started.
So to answer my own question there, no.
This article doesn’t look like it’s A-eye slop to me.
It’s dying a fast death and seems like their is no way to get a version of it installed now.
It’s like a burning man effigy after somebody lit it.
Funny that the only reason Oracle (a side project of Sun Microsystems back then) is sort of running the world is that their decision on how to lock records for integrity was different than Sybase and because of an industry turn in data consumption & use, Oracle was faster. They must have killed MySQL on purpose.
For me they are not drop in replacements. They have different syntax for important commands that I use, their tSQL syntax is different, they are more efficient in one thing than other things so it was really hard to pick a favorite. They were different enough that when I did something almost as stupid ten years ago as I did recently, the Nextcloud’s database that was initiated years prior, would NOT import into the MariaDB server that I was trying to migrate into. That’s what had me initially running two different servers; webserver, and MySQL for Nextcloud to look at.
I never got my head around what a blade server was, and almost bought one but it was hard to find the parts to make it whole so I gave up. Then I saw makers gave up on that idea like the Zune. It sounds like VMware is a type of blade server thing.
So something I vaguely recall having to do for Nextcloud Talk was set up a STUN server, and I think for Friendica there was a TURN server. They were details in the weeds to make some part work better. The thing I remember most was they were ideally running on another server. Same for the Nextcloud anti-virus scanning, another server. Oh, and Moodle likes a BigBlueButton thing going too, but that wants nginx and Moodle likes Apache. I remember running into so many tiny things like that. So could one metal be the thing that handles all those quirky small jobs?
That’s why I use Proxmox (VMware, et al)… because each install can require special setup/config which could interfere with others… so having Proxmox on your ProLiant bare-metal blade allows you to have dozens of “virtual machines” each acting like they’re the only server software running on that blade… it’s awesome!!
I wish there was a way I could add a solution to an old topic. It turns out that my post from years ago, Advice for Virtualmin > System Settings > MySQL Servers > Connect to MySQL server
had a solution. Distro Upgrade dude. Because I brought that very server up to 22.04 LTS (without any adult beverages) from 16.04 LTS on 5/9/2026, that old problem went away. That’s my only proof I’m not completely incompetent.