One thing to remember - Linux isn't the only Open-Source Unix(like) OS that
Firebird SQL performs very well on.

You could install FreeBSD, with a minimal install set(110MB footprint), and
to install Firebird, type the following(as root):

pkg_add -r firebird

Wohaa. 10 minute database server!

N.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gary Marshall [mailto:gary@...]
> Sent: Monday, 8 September 2003 22:07
> To: firebird-support@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: Re: [firebird-support] FB is so easy to do on linux
>
>
> Hi there
>
> > 2. Suppose I wanted to use a Linux Server exclusively for FB.
> > What is necessary. My friend kept asking do you need this,
> > do you need that and I said I dont know. Obviously all the
> > KDE, Gnome stuff can be avoided. (I did avoid it. It was
> > an old machine with 32 MB ram so it is command line only.)
>
> Looking at FirebirdCS-1.5.0.3773-RC5 installed on our RedHat
> 9.0 box here,
> you need the following packages install for it to work:
>
> * bash
> * glibc
> * xinetd
>
> This means (from what I can tell) that your absolute minimum
> system will
> have the following packages installed. It could be quite
> hard to work on a
> system with just these packages - but Firebird should run on
> a system with
> just the following:
>
> * basesystem
> * bash
> * bzip2-libs
> * chkconfig
> * coreutils
> * cracklib
> * cracklib-dicts
> * db4
> * dev
> * e2fsprogs
> * elfutils-libelf
> * expat
> * filesystem
> * fileutils
> * findutils
> * gawk
> * gdbm
> * gettext
> * glib
> * glibc
> * glibc-common
> * gmp
> * grep
> * groff
> * info
> * initscripts
> * iproute
> * iputils
> * krb5-libs
> * less
> * libgcc
> * libgcj
> * libstdc++
> * libtermcap
> * libtermcap-devel
> * man
> * mingetty
> * mktemp
> * modutils
> * mount
> * ncurses
> * net-tools
> * openssl
> * pam
> * pcre
> * popt
> * procps
> * psmisc
> * python
> * readline
> * redhat-release
> * rpm
> * sed
> * setup
> * shadow-utils
> * sysklogd
> * SysVinit
> * tcp_wrappers
> * termcap
> * texinfo
> * util-linux
> * which
> * words
> * xinetd
> * zip
> * zlib
>
> G
>
>
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