Since I helped Mandriva to do their packages for Firebird, I jumped and with Michal, we made things happen
Users of Opensuse 10.0,10.1,10.3 and future 11.0 but also SLE 10 can now just use the server:database repository and get Firebird 2.0.4
As soon as the Firebird Project will publish Firebird 2.1.1, packages will be there too.
IBProvider releases have appeared
IBProvider releases have appeared.
- OCTETS character set and binary data support in IBProvider v3 was implemented.
- Fixed bug occuring when accessing to VARCHAR columns with large size via MS SQL Linked server.
- 64 bits values in metadata schematics are now supported.
- Data type converter was tested by 43000 unit tests.
Read details on the Interbase/Firebird OLE DB driver site.

