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.
New release of Jaybird
A new release of Jaybird is available – 2.1.5. It fixes a bug introduced in 2.1.4 when events did not work on Linux. Please upgrade your installations to this one.