Thank you very much for the replies. Greetings.
Walter. On Wed, Nov 7, 2012 at 10:42 AM, Lester Caine <les...@lsces.co.uk> wrote: > ** > > > W O wrote: > > And what about Ubuntu Server? > > > > What do you think, is it good for Firebird or not? > > Since the core stuff is the same on all distros 'which is better' is > somewhat > academic. I'm running a number of machines 'command line only' over ssh at > remote sites so the bulk of the differences with desktop set-up do not > apply. > Some of the machines I've never seen except over the wire and I'd rather > than > Linux in that case. > > It *IS* all just a matter of what else you need to run. In my case the > latest > Apache and PHP are not currently supported on a stock SUSE set-up, so I'm > switching newer machines to Fedora 17 which does. Firebird has a little > better > support on both so if you don't need the rest it's not so critical. Ubuntu > is > another base that is still on the last major release of Apache and PHP. > > No doubt someone will say 'Manually install', but this introduces a lot of > other > problems when the distro has 'it's own way of working' even Firebird files > end > up in different places and can pick up old versions if they are not > removed > properly. The comment that 'there are more pitfalls' is perfectly correct, > but > at least managing them is somewhat easier than tracking a dodgy update on > Windows ;) > > > -- > Lester Caine - G8HFL > ----------------------------- > Contact - http://lsces.co.uk/wiki/?page=contact > L.S.Caine Electronic Services - http://lsces.co.uk > EnquirySolve - http://enquirysolve.com/ > Model Engineers Digital Workshop - http://medw.co.uk > Rainbow Digital Media - http://rainbowdigitalmedia.co.uk > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Visit http://www.firebirdsql.org and click the Resources item on the main (top) menu. Try Knowledgebase and FAQ links ! Also search the knowledgebases at http://www.ibphoenix.com ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/firebird-support/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: firebird-support-dig...@yahoogroups.com firebird-support-fullfeatu...@yahoogroups.com <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: firebird-support-unsubscr...@yahoogroups.com <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
