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Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors

April 9, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Firebird Project has now ports for the top4 embedded processors used in small devices like phones
The top cpu used in that area are arm,x86,mips,powerpc according to linuxdevices survey

http://www.linuxdevices.com/files/article077/embedded_processor_current_trend.jpg

Here are the build results for firebird2.0 package on debian on main cpu architectures used in debian

http://buildd.debian.org/pkg.cgi?pkg=firebird2.0

The latest port is for arm cpu , and here is the devel-thread
http://www.nabble.com/arm-port-patch-td16497801.html

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General tips for FirebirdCS on Fedora , Centos, RHEL

April 9, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

The Evolution Payroll service-bureau system from iSystems, LLC employs a three-tiered architecture, with the backend being one or more Linux servers running the Firebird SQL database. Evolution is able to split the load across multiple DB servers on a per-client basis. As Service Bureaus grow, it’s common to add new DB servers to the system, and this Evo Tip covers the steps required to take a fresh Fedora Core system and prepare it for Evolution.

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Flamerobin 0.8.6 officially accepted in ubuntu hardy

April 8, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

Flamerobin 0.8.6 is now accepted in the official ubuntu 8.04 hardy repository

http://packages.ubuntu.com/hardy/utils/flamerobin

here is the distro list where flamerobin 0.8.6 is included
Debian http://packages.debian.org/lenny/flamerobin
Gentoo http://gentoo-portage.com/dev-db/flamerobin

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IBProvider comes to 64 bits

April 7, 2008 Andrew Merkulov Leave a comment

New IBProvider v3.0 RC2 [build 3997] for 64 bits operational systems has been released.

Also the related article 10 reasons to upgrade Interbase and Firebird application to 64 bits was published.

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ibwebadmin 2.0 added to ubuntu ppa repository

April 7, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

I have created the ppa packages using the version 2.0 pre from cvs and it can be installed by an simple

$apt-get install ibwebadmin or with synaptic(gdebi)

http://jimicompot.blogspot.com/2008/04/ibwebadmin-20-added-to-ubuntu-ppa.html

http://launchpadlibrarian.net/13170201/ibwebadmin_2.0-1ubuntu6_all.deb

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if you tried to contact FirebirdNews in the past weeks…

April 7, 2008 Cantu Leave a comment

…we had an email problem due to an upgrade of the mail app in the server, that was avoiding us to receive any email sent to the site. The problem was detected recently so, if you tried to contact us in the past weeks/months, please send again your email since we probably missed it. Sorry for any inconvenience.

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Firebird on 2nd place in Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008

April 7, 2008 mariuz Leave a comment

FWIW: Firebird won the 2nd place in the Entwickler Readers Choice Award 2008.

http://entwickler-magazin.de/zonen/magazine/psecom,id,47,nodeid,17,p,0.html

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