Using Firebird 2.5 official tar.gz installer on #Ubuntu Maverick Meerkat 10.10
Here is my guide to install Firebird from official tar.gz archive
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Firebird 2.1.3 in #ubuntu 10.04 using the tar.gz installer
The guide is in Spanish but you can use google translation
Firebird project is worth more than Half a Billion $
According to ohloh widget calculator the project is worth $ 671,246,615
“This calculator estimates how much it would cost to hire a team to write this project from scratch.”
You can help promoting firebird by using the widget to your site and clicking “I Use this” button
Firebird 2.5 vs. Firebird 2.1 speed comparison under .NET provider’s unit tests
Recently I was running NUnit tests we’re using for .NET provider and I got an idea to compare different Firebird versions. Read more.
#Ruby news : Firebird driver compilable on #rbx (rubinius) and full test passes on Linux (for the classic Ruby VM)
Here is the description of rubinius:
Rubinius is an implementation of the Ruby programming language.
The Rubinius bytecode virtual machine is written in C++, incorporating LLVM to compile bytecode to machine code at runtime. The bytecode compiler and vast majority of the core classes are written in pure Ruby.
Here are the rbx experiments done by Brent Rowland
fb now builds fine but won’t load due to missing rb_ary_freeze and rb_struct_new. #rbx
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27771719659
And yes the Linux tests for classic Ruby VM are all ok
Linux testing of the latest fb code went well. 32- and 64-bit Rubies
#noSQL #MongoDB (1296 secs) is MUCH slower than Firebird (125 secs)
Something must be right for Firebird SQL
MongoDB (1296 secs) is MUCH slower than Firebird (125 secs) at just returning id’s from 2 million records. This can’t be right.
via twitter
http://twitter.com/#!/brentrowland/status/27460544811
Firebird 2.5 is now in the #ArchLinux Aur repository
Except SuperClassic all of the packages are now in the official Aur repository
http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?O=0&K=firebird
ps: Happy compiling 🙂
SupperClassic will be added soon to the AUR
Idokan is Creating now 4 packages of firebird 2.5 for #ArchLinux
Via twitter and flamerobin /firebird-devel mailing lists i have seen a lot of activity related to firebird on ArchLinux packages
Creating now 4 packages of #firebird 2.5 to #ArchLinux: SuperServer, libfbclient, ClassicServer, SuperClassic, will be in AUR when I’ll done
Arch is in top 10 most wanted distros on distrowatch
Firebird 2.5 (final) released
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.
Congratulation to us, the Firebird Project, especially the core team. And also to you, users, I hope you’ll enjoy and like the new Firebird 2.5 version as we (I) do.
Note: The MindTheBird campaign team will run a webinar today at 13:00 GMT in anticipation of the launch of Firebird 2.5 Final Release. See the details.
I quoted from Jiri blog
#python3 dbapi for firebird #rdbms released
It’s not the official api but you can test it from github
firebirdsql 0.1.0: python3 dbapi for firebird rdbms.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi/firebirdsql/0.1.0
ps:via pypy twitter bot