Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird Developer Progress Reports – updated on June
You can read the progress reports for this year on various engine development areas
Running program from trigger, SP
This article was originally created for Databazovy Svet (in Czech) and covers a little bit more about this topic. This shortened version is focused only on solutions for Firebird, without any other stuff.
Open Source Awards Accepting Nominations – Firebird mention
Is open source software a part of your daily computing life? Now is your chance to sound off about it. Sourceforge.net, an online community that hosts open source projects, is accepting nominations for its annual Community Choice awards.
[ED:Read the rest of the article here
At the end Firebird is mentioned for the last year awards]
SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards – remember vote for firebird
SourceForge.net 2008 Community Choice Awards: Hey! You! Are you sick of letting the big hardware companies, tech blogs, and mainstream media decide which open source projects deserve widespread attention? So are we. That’s why we created the SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards, and we need your nominations!
This link is for firebird nomination
Firebird on Ubuntu Netbook Remix and Atom cpu
You may have heard of “Ubuntu Netbook Remix”, a special edition of Ubuntu for so called “netbooks“, which was showcased by Canonical at Computex.
In ubuntu atom cpu is named lpia and firebird/flamerobin builds just fine on it (is low power x86 so it should be ok)
Firebird builds on both ARM and ARMEL
From this table you can see that firebird builds on both ARM and ARMEL ( ARMEL is just ARM with some hardware extras.) and here is the buildlog
If you use debian then you can download from here
Quote from linux tiny mailing list about the ARM market share
According to http://eetimes.eu/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=199702110
Arm shipped the processors in 250 million “smart phones” in 2006 (83%
market share in that niche).
Firebird 2.1 to be included in the top of most popular distributions
Firebird 2.1.x will be included in the top most popular linux distributions
Firebird 2.1.1 RC in prerelease area – it will be announced soon
Firebird 2.1.1 can be downloaded from prerelease area , I saw versions for linux/windows 32/64
Firebird 2.0.4 packages for OpenSuse – link to repository and one click install
Here are the Firebird 2.0.4 packages for OpenSuse and the link for database repository and one click install