>
> Firebird runs well on all of the mainstream Linuxen - and others less
> well-known - you may read the release notes and the Novice's Guide

at the

> website for guidance and gotchas regarding kernel incompatibilities.

You

> can get the main v.1.5 releasenotes in several languages, including

yours,

> at the main downloads page for Firebird 1.5, at www.ibphoenix.com.
>

I do have a problem trying to install firebird on yellow dog linux,
which is probably a mainstream linux distro for ppc. When I tried to
build it, it failed, illustrating MARCH=i586 and MCPU= something not ppc.