=== modified file 'INSTALL.txt'
--- INSTALL.txt	2010-04-30 08:09:21 +0000
+++ INSTALL.txt	2010-07-24 02:00:35 +0000
@@ -16,11 +16,14 @@ REQUIREMENTS
 
 Drupal requires:
 
- - a web server, Apache (version 2.0 or greater) is recommended,
- - PHP 5 (5.2.0 or greater) (http://www.php.net/),
- - and either MySQL (5.0.15 or greater) (http://www.mysql.com/), PostgreSQL (8.3
-   or greater) (http://www.postgresql.org/), or SQLite (3.4.2 or greater)
-   (http://www.sqlite.org/).
+- A web server, Apache (version 2.0 or greater) is recommended.
+- PHP 5.2.0 (or greater) (http://www.php.net/).
+- One of the following databases:
+  - MySQL 5.0.15 (or greater) (http://www.mysql.com/).
+  - MariaDB 5.1.44 (or greater) (http://mariadb.org/). MariaDB is fully
+    compatible with MySQL and is recommended instead of MySQL.
+  - PostgreSQL 8.3 (or greater) (http://www.postgresql.org/).
+  - SQLite 3.4.2 (or greater) (http://www.sqlite.org/).
 
 For more detailed information about Drupal requirements, including a list of
 PHP extensions and configurations that are required, see "System requirements"

=== modified file 'includes/database/mysql/install.inc'
--- includes/database/mysql/install.inc	2009-07-27 19:42:54 +0000
+++ includes/database/mysql/install.inc	2010-07-24 02:01:01 +0000
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 class DatabaseTasks_mysql extends DatabaseTasks {
   protected $pdoDriver = 'mysql';
   public function name() {
-    return 'MySQL';
+    return 'MySQL / MariaDB or equivalent';
   }
 }