perl-DBD-Firebird rpm package is in #Mageia, first distro with the new Firebird #perl driver
Mageia is a Mandriva Fork and is Perl friendly and become more and more Ruby friendly
Now the perl DBD Firebird driver landed in the Mageia repository
Tag: mandrake
Firebird 2.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 added to altlinux
Firebird 2.1.1 and Flamerobin 0.9 are added to altlinux.Also latest odbc driver for firebird and mono 2.0.1
AltLinux is an Linux distro that will be used in all the Russian Schools
Other related news about altlinux you can grab from google
[Ed:so this is a big thing , imagine that firebird will be available to every kid or school there , also in Brazil they will have linux on ~50,000,000 desktops for kids , what we need now is some good translated books and documentation]
screenshot of the day – Mandriva 2008 with Firebird and Flamerobin
Screenshot: Mandriva One 2008.0 with Firebird, Flamerobin and docs