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#Debian gives #FreeBSD some love becomes official part of the distro – Firebird port included

October 8, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird does have official ports for debian kFreeBSD and maybe it’s easier to use FreeBSD kernel from an Debian/Ubuntu background (apt-get)

News via tuxradar

Upcoming release of Debian, codenamed Squeeze, will be available in a juicy new FreeBSD flavour alongside the regular Linux version. Well, Debian GNU/kFreeBSD has been around for a while, but now it will be an official part of the distro, combining the titanium-strength FreeBSD kernel with the GNU C library

What is left to be done on the porting front ? maybe fixing the building on avr, hurd and m68k (sh4 is already done) but these are not yet official debian ports.

Also alpha cpu support seems to be dropped from debian release archiectures so no porting effort is needed

I took one list from 2007 and you can compare where we are now

Already ported:
i386
amd64
mipsel
sparc
powerpc
kfreebsd-i386
kfreebsd-amd64
arm
ia64
mips
s390 = IBM/S390
superH (sh4)

Need to be ported:
~~alpha~~ is dead
m68k
hurd
avr
hppa

ps:
So you can install firebird on the phone (maemo is arm debian linux) or on the mainframe linux (ibm s390)

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Firebird Ported to Renesas SuperH Cpu #Linux

October 7, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

We have another Firebird Port to the Renesas SuperH cpu (linux) by Nobuhiro Iwamatsu

Here is the patch that was added by Alex

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#Qt 4.5.3 Released with Firebird #Database fixes

October 7, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Qt 4.5.3 is now available. 4.5.3 is a patch level release providing various bug-fixes over the 4.5.2 release that we issued in late-June.

You can see the full changelog here
with the related Firebird fix (Database Drivers section)

– Fixed ::record for dialect 3 named tables in interbase/firebird.

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Now your programs for Firebird and Interbase are able to process any data volumes

October 7, 2009 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

We are glad to announce the release of new IBProvider Professional v3 codename “Shaitan” . The volume of processed data is now restricted only by the free space on your hard disk containing provider’s swap file. In the earlier versions of IBProvider, when the system cache had worked out available physical memory, the performance was dropping substantially.

IBProvider Professional codename “Shaitan” is able not only to process tens of gigabytes of data, but does it substantially faster than its predecessors do.

This is possible due to the usage of more efficient buffering and cashing algorithms and multithread data handling.

Furthermore, support of GB18030 charset was added.

Download new version right now: Firebird provider download.

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New version of FreeAdhocUDF – now with UTF-8 support

October 6, 2009 ctheuring Leave a comment

Today we uploaded a new version “adhoc 20090925” of FreeAdhocUDF.
There are some bugfixes and 48 new functions (totally now more than 500).
This is a recommended update and the first (and only?) UDF-library with UTF-8 and UNICODE-FSS support.
For security reasons there is a new separate file-UDF-library FAUfile.
You can download it from ftp://ftp.FreeAdhocUDF.org/FreeAdhocUDF/
Documentation found at http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/index_eng.html
For better support there is a forum – direct URL http://FreeAdhocUDF.org/portal
For all kind of questions use eMail help@freeadhocudf.org

adhoc dataservice / Christoph Theuring

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News from the Firebird Foundation

October 6, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

Wed 23 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT	Bill Oliver Funds Another Week	Secretary
	Bill Oliver, of SAS, who started a new tradition a few months ago, of donating a “one-week run” of cash for development, has done it again! Thanks, Bill! Any others interested in funding a week? A sum of around $2,100 to $2,300 will do it.

Mon 21 Sep 2009 12:00:00 GMT	Annual General Meeting Announced	Vice-President
	Our Annual General Meeting will start on Monday 12 October 2009 at Noon GMT. The Agenda is available and will be built up as reports and nominations come to hand. It is TIME to step forward if you wish to indicate that you are available to serve on the new committee. Nominations will be required for the executive offices of President, Vice-President, Treasurer and Secretary. In addition, nominations may be made for non-executive positions. You can link through to the launch page for nominations from the Agenda.

Tue 15 Sep 2009 12:06:00 GMT	Pavel Cisar Relinquishes Grant	Committee
	Pavel Cisar, who has been using the grant allocation for development of QA tests for releases for some years, is relinquishing the grant from November forward. It doesn’t mean Pavel is giving up his task, though: he will carry on with his work. Philippe Makowski, who is the project’s other QA tester, already gave up his grant several months ago.

Old news here.

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Firebird optimizer

October 5, 2009 Cantu Leave a comment

IBSurgeon posted information about Firebird Optimizer including a presentation by Dmitry Yemanov. Check it out:

Firebird: cost-based optimization and statistics, by Dmitry Yemanov (in English)

View more presentations from Nataly Polyanskaya.

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Howto and patches:Raw SSD devices on Windows and Firebird 2.5 embedded

October 5, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

A very interesting thread about using Firebird embedded on Raw devices (SSD) , this way bypasing filesystem overhead

Engine has nearly complete support for raw disks on Windows (useful
for new SSD devices)
…
We found this Firebird feature useful for very fast SSD devices where
filesystem layer creates a big deal of overhead.

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#Sequel 3.5.0 Released lightweight database access toolkit for #Ruby

October 2, 2009 mariuz Leave a comment

Sequel 3.5.0 has been released and should be available on the gem
mirrors. The 3.5.0 release adds numerous improvements

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