Content not direct related to FB, but interesting reading.
This Debian security advisory is a bit unusual. While it’s normally
our strict policy to backport security bugfixes to older releases, this
turned out to be infeasible for Firebird 1.5 due to large infrastructural
changes necessary to fix these issues. As a consequence security support
for Firebird 1.5 is hereby discontinued, leaving two options to
administrators running a Firebird database:
I’m happy to announce the release of mojoPortal 2.2.3.3, its available now on the download page.
I need to choose an embeded database for my Windows desktop application programmed in C# .NET.
I having been trying to connect (without success) to a Firebird server from OOo 2.3.[ED:but in the end it was solved by using this guide and it was fast too ]
when you upgrade in debian from firebird 1.5.x to 2.0.x beware of some UDF issues
We have similar databases running on MySql, Postgresql and Firebird. One of the reasons for moving away from MySql was that the UTF8 support didn’t work properly.
Read the rest of the article here http://nikolajlindberg.blogspot.com/2008/03/firebird-vs-postgresql.html
I’m using last jruby release with rails 2.0.2 and activerecord-jdbc-adapter.
Here is the rest of the article http://www.forniol.cat/?p=91
firebird2.0 package is now included in debian etch backports (stable)
http://packages.debian.org/etch-backports/firebird2.0-super
for using the etch stable backports read this reference
firebird 2.0 package is also included in testing
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firebird2.0-super
and unstable
http://packages.debian.org/sid/firebird2.0-super
You can read the progress reports for this year on various engine development areas
