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Plain and simple: the answer is
No.
Some people have successfully running their site with MySQL 5 but others don´t. The official stance at the moment is that it is not ready (esp. several modules)
Source:
Is XOOPS ready for MySQL 5.0 ?There are several threads. Since i prefer to use google for the search you could use this to get some more:
Link is not working so just throw this into google:
"mysql 5" site:www.xoops.org
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