Firebird ubuntu guide for gutsy updated on wiki
The ubuntu gutsy 7.10 and hardy 8.04 includes firebird 2.0.3 latest stable release, here is how to install it on both
Category: General news
Firebird related news
Firebird 2.5 head builds for linux
You can download Firebird 2.5 head builds for linux from here
FirebirdClient 2.5.0 Alpha 2 released
The new version of FirebirdClient (ADO.NET Data Provider) is available for download: http://firebirdsql.org/index.php?op=files&id=netprovider .
It’s mainly a bugfix release. Work on Entity Framework support still continues.
Collation charts
The goal of this project is to provide information about how various pieces of software (e.g. operating systems, DBMS and others) sort textual data, in the form of easy-to-read charts.
Check Firebird collation charts.
flamerobin 0.8.5 snapshot ready in the debian repository
you can test it in debian unstable (amd64 and i386) from debian sid repository
http://packages.debian.org/sid/flamerobin
Other binary snapshots for flamerobin 0.8.5 are here
(you can tests on other operating systems: Linux, MacosX, windows,wine)
2007 LinuxQuestions.org Members Choice Awards
you can see the final vote results , this year there was some good pr campaign from postgres 🙂 and we didn’t voted so much like in previous years
but we took an honorable 3rd place
It’s weird that sqlite is not on the first row it’s used in firefox/google gears … and disabled in php.ini by default
Choice between MySQL and Firebird? – post of the day
Which one of the two would you choose and why?
New Silver Sponsor from South Africa
From Firebird Foundation blog:
QuickEasy Software, from Cape Town, today became a Silver sponsor, with CEO Heinrich van der Vyver stating “…recently converted our software from IB6 to run on Firebird 2.0.3 and I’m very pleased with the result, also with the backend utility Flamerobin.”
Firebird downloads over 5 Millions at sf.net download statistics
The download counter on sf.net for all downloads is over 5 Millions , and the stats shows that traffic is growing
[ps:we should talk with the xampp guys to include php extension for firbird and the server]
FB CVS activity
You can use the following URL to check the recent Firebird project’s CVS repository activity (updated every few hours).