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Firebird 2.5 package is already in Debian and Ubuntu but with latest patches for Hppa and Alpha cpus in the Firebird 2.5 main tree Firebird supports all the Main Debian Architectures

After my controversial Droid post, it's time for me to strike back with another hot topic, namely the Java or C# trap for that matter. The JVM and the .NET CLR are birds of the same feather and they kind of flock together; like it or not.

The most important issue is their very own fork of the Linux kernel which no longer can be merged with the upstream kernel.

Today the Firebird 2.5 is being released. You can read the press release and most importantly release notes. And sure, you can download it and use/test/deploy.

I have a heavy-used website powered by LAMP stack (CentOS Linux, Apache 2, MySQL and PHP). It started on a shared hosting so I had to use MySQL. Year and a half later, I switched shared, virtual hosting and not run it on a dedicated server. I decided to try Firebird to see how it performs and also how it compares to MySQL in RAM usage, disk usage, etc.

Firebird history after 10 years and the Future .Words from Philippe Makowski, President of Firebird Foundation

The new download stats interface from sourceforge.net t shows what are the countries from where Firebird rdbms is most downloaded and what operating system is used to download it and the most unexpected thing is that Linux is in the Top

As Firebird approaches the final 2.5 release, a new campaign is born to help increase Firebird’s visibility and awareness.

New version of Arora webkit based browser is released . Mainly qt 4.6 related fixes and some new features.

The primary goal for Firebird 2.5 was to establish the basics for a new threading architecture that is almost entirely common to the Superserver, Classic and Embedded models, taking in lower level synchronization and thread safety generally. Although SQL enhancements are not a primary objective of this release, for the first time, user management becomes accessible through SQL USER statements

OpenSuse 11.2 is out, it is the first time that Firebird is in the official OpenSuse repositories, after Mandriva, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora (and RHEL/Centos Fedora project repositories all the major free distributions now have the latest stable Firebird version (V2.1.3) available in their official repositories.

Firebird 2.1.3 is a recommended update, packages for ubuntu , karmic ,intrepid , jaunty and hardy are ready and uploaded

We have the pleasure to announce the third edition of one of the most important Open Source and Free Software conferences in Eastern Europe: eLiberatica 2009 that will take place on 22nd- 23rd of May, in Bucharest, Romania.

Recently I started a new project in which I need to choose another database besides MySQL. Since then, I had been using MySQL for basically everything, but given the MySQL licensing scheme and a few restrictions of the project itself, this time I had to use something else. So I choose Firebird SQL.

An interview with Daniel Albuschat, member of Firebird community , It's all about arora browser , lisp , c++, qt, overclocking, and the firebird database.

Here is the tutorial and tips needed for running Ruby on Rails on Firebird. Migrations doesn’t work yet with Ruby on Rails and Firebird but you can use Flamerobin to create the database tables by hand

The Linux release candidate 2 kits for Firebird 2.1.2 have been released for field testing. Feedback to the firebird-devel list please; bug-reports to the Tracker.

The Firebird project publishes the following roadmap. During this year, Firebird users can expect more supported releases (2.1.x and 2.5.0) and the first alpha of FB 3. Many new features are planned, as described in the roadmap.

This post is about an interview with Ales Katona (also known as Almindor) - A contributor to FPC, Lazarus and have few of his own open source projects as well such as Lentilwars and lnet. I have asked Ales to have an interview with me regarding the open source projects and some information about himself, and I hope you all find it interesting as I have.

I’d like to clarify some facts about Firebird and Firebird Foundation. I think right now is a correct time to remind how all these things are organized, because some messages about "crisis, firebird's death, low finances" and so on being spreaded around. It seems that many people think that Firebird Foundations owns Firebird, makes development strategic/tactic decisions or something like this. This is not real, in fact the Firebird Foundation is an institution to collect donations and sponsors money and grant them to people, related with Firebird development. To understand exactly who is who we need to look at the current situation with Firebird.