Hi,

Personally, I couldn't live without apt-get / dselect, that's one of
the reasons I stick to Debian. I installed (and run) all versions of
Firebird 1.0 without any problem.

Nor did I experience any problem installing Firebird 1.5 RC4 Classic
server on Debian: download, tar xvfz, ./install: that'it.

About Kylix: in your situation, I think I would prefer to use QT, with
some appropriate library of C++ classes that encapsulate the
firebird API. SQLAPI and IBPP are both of very good quality.

HTH,
Fabrice

--- In firebird-support@yahoogroups.com, Doug Chamberlin
<yahoogroups@a...> wrote:

> I am about to jump from Windows to Linux with a test server

installation. I

> have total freedom to pick a Linux distro to start with but I need help
> deciding which to choose.
>
> Unfortunately the two apps I definitely want to run on this machine are
> Firebird and Kylix. I understand they have conflicting requirements

in the

> sets of distros they work on but I need to solve this problem at some
> point. (If I have to I'll start with Firebird and then make changes

to get

> Kylix working.)
>
> Any guidance on what is a good Linux version to use with either

Firebird or

> Kylix would be appreciated.