Two chapters from Using Firebird guide ready for contributors review
Warning : they are for documentation contributors not for distribution or end users (If you spot mistakes contact the firebird-doc team )
Author: mariuz
http://wiki.ubuntu.com/Mariuz
Firebird 2.0 rc2 from source howto (ubuntu dapper drake)
This was tested on the Ubuntu Dapper Drake (that will be released this summer)
I assume you have installed the g++ compiler (with apt-get or synaptic)
download the Firebird 2.0 RC 2 kit from the nearest mirror
Lucene.Net needs committers ( call for help )
As you know from pervious article Lucene.net can be used with firebird, if you know some C# or have documentation fixes (spell checking etc) please give an hand to help the project
As you may know, I am currently the only developer working on it. I need and welcome help to finish it off. Also,
Lucene.Net needs committers. To become a committer on ASF, you can start by reading: http://incubator.apache.org/learn/newcommitters.html So please, if you want to see Lucene.Net move to the next stage and even graduate from incubation, do your part; you can start by looking at the current code and comment on those lines with “Aroush” in them.
Firebird 2.0 RC2 binary kits for Win32 are uploaded
Firebird V2.0 Release Candidate 2 Windows builds are now available for download.
Firebird Replication engine (open source and written in c++)
After investigating my options for some time I finally decided to write my own
replication engine for Firebird (from scratch). FiBRe came closest to my needs,
but it’s requirement that all tables have column named ID simply doesn’t fit.
FlameRobin 0.7.1 released
Windows (setup & zip), Linux (gtk1 &. gtk2), Mac OS X and source packages are available for download. Read more here, changelog included
Full-Text Search: Fast, Damn Fast and DotLucene
DotLucene is an open-source search engine library for .NET. There is now set up a demo site (damnfastdotlucene.org) that tests DotLucene performance on quite a big set of documents
[ED:Lucene.net index can be stored in firebird database]
creating an firebird live cd (with ubuntu dapper drake)
I have created an Firebird Live CD by adding an firebird-super-server and flamerobin packages.
Here is the small howto.
ps: latter i will upload the iso on the sf.net
Firebird 2.00 Release Candidate 2 is out
The Firebird Project has begun releasing source and binary kits of Firebird 2.0 Release Candidate 2. As usual, the Linux builds will be available first. Please do not flood the support lists if a kit you want is delayed. We have no control over how long it takes the mirrors to catch up.
Firebird .Net Provider v2.0 RC4 is available for download.
Download information can be found here ( Please review the changelog for details ) :
http://www.firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider