Free firebird international raceway software for linux

Firebird is a relational database offering many ANSI SQL-99 features that runs on Linux, Windows, and a variety of Unix platforms.

Firebird offers excellent concurrency, high performance, and powerful language support for stored procedures and triggers. Firebird Relational Database has been used in production systems and under a variety of names since 1981.

Firebird is a commercially independent project of C and C++ programmers, technical advisors and supporters developing and enhancing a multi-platform relational database management system based on the source code released by Inprise Corp (now known as Borland Software Corp) on 25 July, 2000 under the InterBase Public License v.1.0.


New code modules added to Firebird are licensed under the Initial Developers Public License. (IDPL). The original modules released by Inprise are licensed under the InterBase Public License v.1.0. Both licences are modified versions of the Mozilla Public License v.1.1.

Installing:

In order to install the firebird version of IB 6.0 you will need to perform the following steps:

1. Get the required packages:

Get the glibc update from RedHat, the one I used
was from ftp://updates.redhat.com/7.0/i386/glibc-2.2-5.i386.rpm

Get ncurses4 from
ftp://carrier.ision.net/pub/ftp.redhat.com/i386/en/RedHat/RPMS/ncurses4-5.0-2.i386.rpm
or another redhat mirror.

Get Firebird from
ftp://firebird.sourceforge.net/pub/firebird/release/FirebirdSS-0.9-1.i386.rpm

2. Prepare the installation:

Log in as root.
Use a plain text console to do this and be sure
that all Gnome desktops are closed.
(One user reported that the Gnome desktop
(apparently ICEwm)
blocked port 3050. I could not reproduce this
here, but it seems that it uses port numbers
that arent assigned in /etc/services for own
purposes)

3. Add localhost.localdomain to /etc/hosts.equiv:
echo localhost.localdomain >>/etc/hosts.equiv

4. Change to the directory where you have placed
the downloaded packages.

5. Install the glibc update:
rpm --install --force glibc-2.2-5.i386.rpm

6. Install libncurses.so.4:
rpm --install --force ncurses4-5.0-2.i386.rpm

7. Install Firebird:
rpm --install --force FirebirdSS-0.9-1.i386.rpm

8. Add /opt/interbase/bin to your path:
You can either change /etc/profile
or do
export PATH=$PATH: /opt/interbase/bin
or
change the profiles in your users home directories

9. Check that all went well:

Read /opt/interbase/SYSDBA.password
to get your SYSDBA password.

gsec -display
should display the list of known users
(SYSDBA only after a fresh install)

isql /opt/interbase/examples/employee.gdb
SQL> SHOW TABLES;
should display all tables from this database
SQL>quit;

International Components for Unicode provides a Unicode implementation, with functions for formatting numbers, dates, times, and currencies (according to locale conventions, transliteration, and parsing text in those formats).
It provides flexible patterns for formatting messages, where the pattern determines the order of the variable parts of the messages, and the format for each of those variables. These patterns can be stored in resource files for translation to different languages. Included are more than 100 codepage converters for interaction with non-unicode systems.
Main features:
- Text: Unicode text handling, full character properties and character set conversions (500+ code pages)
- Analysis: Unicode regular expressions; full Unicode sets; character, word and line boundaries
- Comparison: language sensitive collation and searching
- Transformations: normalization, upper/lowercase, script transliterations (50+ pairs)
- Locales: comprehensive data (230+) & resource bundle architecture
- Complex Text Layout: Arabic, Hebrew, Indic and Thai
- Formatting and Parsing: multi-calendar and time zone,dates, times, numbers, currencies, messages
Enhancements:
- This is a major release, with new features, new APIs, and many bugfixes in data and code.
- ICU uses and supports Unicode 5.0, which is the latest major release of Unicode.
- CU uses and supports data from Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR) 1.4, which includes many improvements in quality and quantity of data.
- A charset detection framework was added, which provides heuristics for detecting the charset for unlabeled sequences of bytes.
- Other performance and feature enhancements were added.

libiptcdata project is a C library for manipulating the International Press Telecommunications Council (IPTC) metadata stored within multimedia files such as images.
This metadata can include captions and keywords, often used by popular photo management applications. The library provides routines for parsing, viewing, modifying, and saving this metadata.
The libiptcdata package also includes a command-line utility, iptc, for viewing and editing IPTC data in JPEG files.
Enhancements:
- This version generates files that are compatible with Picasas captions.

PHP Database Interface is an easy to use PHP database interface meant to give applications universal support across many databases, including several flat file formats.
Installation
These are just a few notes installation notes regarding DBi and using it with your project
txtSQL support requires the following files from the release archive (currently 3.0 Beta is Supported) :
txtSQL.class.php, txtSQL.parser.php & txtSQL.core.php To be placed in the 3rdparty/txtsql/ directory or the location of your choice
fileSQL support requires the the following file from the release archive (currently 1.0 RC4 is Supported) :
fileSQL.php To be placed in the 3rdparty/fql/ directory of the location of your choice
Test data and a demo script is available in the demo/ directory
Simple Example
// The filesystem root path to DBi needs to be defined before the include
define(PHP_DBI_ROOT, C:/program files/apache group/apache2/htdocs2/modules/dbi/);
define(PHP_DBI_FQL, PHP_DBI_ROOT.3rdparty/fql/fileSQL.php); //Required for FQL Support
define(PHP_DBI_TXTSQL, PHP_DBI_ROOT.3rdparty/txtsql/); //Required for txtSQL Support
include_once("../dbi.php");
$interface = dbi::factoryControllerConstruction(); //create a new dbi object
// open a connection to the database (this will example will work with any
// of the interfaced databases
$interface->open_connection_now_persistent("fql&".PHP_DBI_ROOT."3rdparty/fql/data&demo");
//Select the entire contents of test2 table and store the first row
$inteface->ExecuteQueryAndReturnRow?(array(select => *, from => test2));
$results = $interface->fetchRowThenGetAnotherrow();
//Display the first row of results
print "First Row: ";
print_r($results);
print "< br >";
$interface->disconnect_fromDatabase(); // Closes connection to the database
Enhancements:
- The tableInfo function was added to return the schema.
- LIMIT was added to select functions for supporting databases.
- LIMIT emulation is available to all database types.
- Support for the Firebird database was added.

KInterbasDB project is a Python extension package that implements Python Database API 2.0-compliant support for the open source relational database Firebird and some versions of its proprietary cousin Borland Interbase.
In addition to the minimal feature set of the standard Python DB API, KInterbasDB also exposes nearly the entire native client API of the database engine.
Enhancements:
- At concurrency_level 1, it was possible for a deadlock to occur if KInterbasDB simultaneously raised an exception in one thread while executing a SQL statement in another. This problem did not affect concurrency_level 2. Thanks for Atsuo Ishimoto for reporting this bug.
- The official implementation of the automagic TEXT_UNICODE type translator (in the kinterbasdb.typeconv_text_unicode module) was missing support for the new character sets introduced in Firebird 2.0 (namely, the corrected version of UTF8, plus KOI8-R, KOI8-U, and WIN1258). Thanks to Oleg Deribas for bringing this to my attention.

libdbi implements a database-independent abstraction layer in C, similar to the DBI/DBD layer in Perl.
Writing one generic set of code, programmers can leverage the power of multiple databases and multiple simultaneous database connections by using this framework.
The libdbi-drivers project provides the database-specific drivers for the libdbi framework. The drivers officially supported by libdbi are:
- Firebird/Interbase
- FreeTDS (provides access to MS SQL Server and Sybase)
- MySQL
- PostgreSQL
- SQLite/SQLite3
The following drivers are in various stages of completion and are supposed to be included into the next release:
- mSQL
- Oracle
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a packaging error in 0.8.2. There are no source code changes.

Not another MAC theme 0.1 provides you with a nice theme for GNOME users. It is actually a mix of all the MAC OS X GTK themes.

GNOME is an international effort to build a complete desktop environment the graphical user interface which sits on top of a computer operating system entirely from free software. This goal covers creating software development frameworks, selecting application software for the desktop, and working on the programs which manage application launching, file handling, and window and task management.

Requirements:

• GNOME