> I know it's late, i don't receive reply alert :(

I never saw the original question I'm afraid. :-(

However, I have run various versions of Firebird on Suse and OpenSuse
with very little trouble. Now whether or not that makes OpenSuse (11 at
the moment) the *best* Linux to run Firebird on, I have no idea. It
simply works for me.

My system is a Sony Vaio Laptop (PCG-FR315S) with Pentium 4 processor
and 1GB of RAM.

I do think that OpenSuse 11.0 is by far the best distribution I have
run, and I've played around with Mandrake, Suse, OpenSuse, Centos,
Fedora, Red Hat and Debian at various stages. OpenSuse 11.0 just does
what I want it to do - Firebird, Docbook, DVDs, rip CDs to Ogg format,
playback of same, and programming - for fun and when I get a chance.

Cheers,
Norman.