What qualifies as 'best'? For the optimum performance, I'd suggest a source
based distribution (Gentoo has firebird support).

For ease of installation, yeah..the 'big 5' ;-)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tiberiu Atudorei [mailto:tiberiu.atudorei@...]
> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2003 10:27 AM
> To: ib-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [ib-support] What's the best Linux to install Firebird
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I've used Firebird in Windows platforms and I would like to know the
> > advantages to have Firebird installed on a Linux machine and which
> > Linux flavor is best for it (I haven't used Linux before).
> I hope you
> > can share your experience.
>
> Try latest version of 'Big 5' distros: RedHat (9), Mandrake
> (9.1), Suse, Slackware (9) and Debian. I've tried Mandrake
> 9.1 with very good results. Don't know wich distro is 'best
> for it', seems that RH/suSe/Mdk are
> extensively tested before release. I'm a MDK fan.
> Also I've tried with very good results another flavor
> (E-smith Linux) wich is a server-oriented distro (no X or
> compilers/gcc/make/etc.). In this case either you install
> FirebirdSS 1.0.2 or for FirebirdCS 1.5 you have to install
> libraries from gcc 3.2.3 and then Firebird. For a 'normal'
> distribution you don't have that kind of problems.
>
> Tiberiu 'MDK 9.1 rulz' ATUDOREI
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