On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 1:03 AM, Helen Borrie <helebor@...> wrote:

> At 08:47 AM 25/03/2008, Aage wrote:
> >rudi_josic wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to change my DB (firebird) server (windows to linux), but there
> > > are many different linux distributions. I would like to know what
> > > linux distribution you recommend to install a firebird BD server.
> > > ...
> > > Any suggestions will be appreciated.
> > >
> >
> >Do ask in the support group.
> >
> >Also, describe your Firebird installations on Linux (no. of users,
> >memory, etc.) - Classic and Superserver have different requirements.
>
> No, actually, here is fine. Linux is Linux when it comes down to servers.
>
> It's a nuisance to clutter up the support list what gets down to a
> religious argument. Just make sure you read the installation notes before
> you decide which kit to take. Yeah, right, you have to dig the hole to find
> the shovel, since the notes are installed along with the software. So read
> the notes on the download page and either read or download the release notes
> and installation notes from the doc index before you make up your mind. And
> read the Quick Start Guide from the doc index if you're not sure whether to
> install Classic or Superserver.
>
> You're probably well-advised to stick with a 2.4.x kernel and a non-NPTL
> build if you want to run 32-bit Superserver on Opteron CPUs, due to
> persistent known issues with the NPTL threading for this CPU in some
> versions of the 2.6 kernel.
>
> Another tip is to choose a distro that supports RPMs until/unless you're
> comfortable with installing stuff manually from a tarball. The same goes
> for the packages you install: use the official ones if at all possible,
> since the distro package maintainers tend to do idiosyncratic things with
> the components and don't necessarily keep up to date with our sub-releases.
>
> FWIW, I use Mandriva 2008 Free because I've found Mandriva always ahead of
> the pack when it comes to detecting my sometimes weird hardware. It even
> detected my PMP player. Nice. I use Classic so the 2.6 kernel issue
> doesn't affect me. If you're new to all this, install the project's
> Firebird RPM, not the package from the Mandriva repository.
>
> We run the website and the Tracker on OpenSuse 10.
>
> Alex builds the binaries on a CentOS setup that he compiles himself from
> sources. Philippe does the QA for both Classic and SS on Mandriva 2008.
> Debian and Ubuntu can be a difficult curve for newbies (and some oldies,
> too!) in terms of where stuff gets installed. I leave it to others to argue
> the cases for their favourites...but please let's keep this kind of battle
> out of the support list...
>
> Helen
>

if you really know debian then ubuntu is very similar , in fact is debian
with more polish and is targeted to be easier to use
i do have experience with both centos and mandriva and they are good too for
using them on server or desktop
it depends on you preferences more than technical merits .

For servers i would choose debian testing or unstable , they have quite
recent packages for firebird2.0 and they have very few changes in the source
(only the security issues patched)
http://packages.debian.org/lenny/firebird2.0-super
there is an backport for debian stable too

on ubuntu i would recomend gutsy or hardy
for gutsy i have an small patch that fixes startup issue and for hardy i
have the latest package from debian unstable
that fixes an install bug

https://launchpad.net/~mapopa/+archive

ps: these bugs will be fixed soon , i will request that these bugs to be
fixed by the ubuntu developers

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