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“Work-in-Progress” release notes for the forthcoming Firebird 2.5 Alpha are available for browsing online.

The Darwin Race of Languages contest is now running! You can participate and contribute with Firebird community at the same time, choosing to build a gBak GUI frontend tool (check more details here).

Firebird has some funny ways of handling passwords. The maximum length of passwords that is evaluated is 8 characters. Every character after the 8th is silently ignored. That’s especially funny because the ‘default’ password for a Firebird-installation is ‘masterkey’, which has 9 characters. You can, however, successfully log in to freshly installed Firebird-servers providing the [...]

You can vote firebird2 packages by installing popularity-contest package and then submit your votes here
http://popcon.ubuntu.com/
where you can see the results , also you can enable it from
System -> Administration -> Software Sources -> Submit Statistical information

Here is the translated version of the original article where is described how to run firebird 2.1 and older versions in the same time

If you look at Drupal and also Typo3, they already have multi database support.
Joomla! is currently at the beginning of developing a new Database Abstraction Layer . This new layer should also make it possible for developers to build more support for other database platforms.The new Database Abstraction Layer is not expected to be included [...]

There is a project going on to meter the usage of Open Source software all over the world. People just download an utility who scan their machines, detects and reports the use of any recognized Open Source package (anonimously, of course). Right now, Firebird is not one of the recognized packages. This can be fixed [...]

Seems that was an misunderstanding.
I have some inside information.Don’t you love people not getting the whole story …
At present the PHP team can’t even BUILD a windows version of PHP5.3 and it’s this that has caused the problems

The Firebird 2.1.1 packages are now in ppa for Ubuntu Gutsy , Feisty , Hardy
The guide for installing is located in the ubuntu wiki

Jim Starkey, creator of InterBase, who was working for MySQL developing the Falcon engine, is leaving MySQL, probably to start some new technology.

PhpBB3 can be installed with firebird database backend , here is an howto and you can see an demo of Firebird+Phpbb3 instance here

You can read the progress reports for this year on various engine development areas

You may have heard of “Ubuntu Netbook Remix”, a special edition of Ubuntu for so called “netbooks“, which was showcased by Canonical at Computex.
In ubuntu atom cpu is caled lpia and firebird builds just fine on it (is low power x86 so it should be ok)
via
http://markusthielmann.com/blog/installing_ubuntu_netbook_remix_ubuntu_hardy_804

You may have heard of “Ubuntu Netbook Remix”, a special edition of Ubuntu for so called “netbooks“, which was showcased by Canonical at Computex.
In ubuntu atom cpu is caled lpia and firebird builds just fine on it (is low power x86 so it should be ok)
via
http://markusthielmann.com/blog/installing_ubuntu_netbook_remix_ubuntu_hardy_804

You may have heard of “Ubuntu Netbook Remix”, a special edition of Ubuntu for so called “netbooks“, which was showcased by Canonical at Computex.
In ubuntu atom cpu is caled lpia and firebird builds just fine on it (is low power x86 so it should be ok)
via
http://markusthielmann.com/blog/installing_ubuntu_netbook_remix_ubuntu_hardy_804