Nick wrote:

> A) what is the base unix flavour used for firebird

Now I just read that you wrote "base" and not "best".

Well, there is not "base" either. Any Linux distribution with 2.4 or 2.6
kernels and newer version of libc (and pthreads for SuperServer) should
do it.

During the past few years, I installed and tested Firebird on Fedora,
CentOS, Mandriva, Mandrake, SuSE, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, MoviX and
FreeBSD (probably even more, but I forgot). It works on all those
systems without problems. Most of the systems are production ones and
they "just work".


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