OK so I'm of the group of Star Wars Galaxies that liked it the way it was orignally designed and not what it was reconfigured into wich is the worst features of WoW and a FPS combined. I saw the SWGEmu and it's never going to be finished before the new Star Wars MMO is released. So.... I took a few ideas and figured they should work together.
The problem is my first hurdle which is SQL. I'm not going to purchase it for an experiment. I found MySQL which I was told would be able to handle the concept. I have no idea about SQL or its variants so my first question is: Is this something I should tackle as a SQL/MySQL beginner? My second question is has anyone figured out how to install MySQL on Kubuntu? The forums I read for installing MySQL on Kubuntu were confusing at best.

The reason I'm looking into this is I will be increasing my bandwidth in the future and I want to have a small server to host the game in its original format to friends and associates only.

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YAY MY 1000th POST!!!!!!!!