> Let us know, I would be very interested to hear this. Good work if
> it happens. They did have InterBase 6.0 originally :-)
>

the first rmp is in cooker
<http://rpms.mandrakeclub.com/rpms/mandrake/devel/cooker/i586/media/contrib/firebird-1.5.2.4731-0.1mdk.i586.html>

so Mandrake i586 users can have a try