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Open Source Awards Accepting Nominations – Firebird mention

June 8, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

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.

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At the end Firebird is mentioned for the last year awards]

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Firebird and Suse

May 30, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

By philippe on Thursday 29 May 2008

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.

COBOL language in Firebird SQL Pre-processor is now enabled on debian/ubuntu

May 30, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

This feature was requested on ubuntu bug tracker and now fix is released in firebird2.0 for Ubuntu Intrepid Ibex

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Firebird Experts Forum – fastest forum i have ever seen is powered by firebird

May 30, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

The forum here is created using the phpBB Software, available on phpbb.com. It is a great and free Open Source Solution and since version 3, it has full support for firebird. This installation uses apache 2.0, phpBB 3.01, php 5.21 and firebird 2.1 on windows 2003 server.

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Data load speed test , Mysql vs Firebird

May 24, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

I’ve run some data load tests with various databases using DBMonster, so connecting to databases through JDBC on a WindowsXP personal computer.
Here are the results, in both cases I loaded 100 rows in the parent table and 1000 in the child table, with foreign keys enabled.

Firebird ports for Intanium and hppa to be released soon

May 23, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

If you watch the debian building logs for different architectures then there are a few ones left to be done , Itanium , Hppa and Alpha (dead one)
http://buildd.debian.org/build.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0

and seem that this will be solved very soon

remember to upgrade to firebird 2.0.4 or firebird2.1

May 23, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Stack-based buffer overflow in Firebird before 2.0.4, and 2.1.x before 2.1.0 RC1, might allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a long username.

http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2008-0467

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firebird2.0 security bug is now fixed in debian/gentoo

May 19, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

There is an grave security bug in firebird package 2.0 from debian and ubuntu
where an user can connect to the server with SYSDBA and NO password

The bug is now fixed in debian sid (unstable)

http://packages.debian.org/sid/firebird2.0-super
and here is the changelog

firebird2.0-super.init: stop exporting ISC_USER and ISC_PASSWORD.
Fixes a hole causing remote connections as user SYSDBA to succeed
without giving a password.
Closes: #481389 and CVE-2008-1880

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