Re: Firebird vrs Postgresql

On 15 Jul 2003, Ron Johnson wrote:

> On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 17:45, Ian Barwick wrote:
> > On Wednesday 16 July 2003 00:32, Andrew Gould wrote:
> >
> > > 4. I couldn't find the documentation to tell me where
> > > to start once I installed the database server. (This
> > > may have been obvious to a DBA.)
> >
> > Here:
> > http://www.ibphoenix.com/main.nfs?a=ibphoenix&page=ibp_download
> > there is a "Firebird Quick Start Guide" which provides useful orientation
> > for the uninitiated (or those merely poking about ;-). Note that
> > the docs are for 1.0x, some things described seem to have changed
> > in the 1.5 betas.
> >
> > > (Regarding #3: What is the proper way to refer to
> > > Unix, Linux, FreeBSD, etc., collectively?)
> >
> > Unixen, or possibly GNU/Unixen ? ;-)
>
> Sun might get peeved at Solaris being clumped in as part of GNU/Unixen!

True, but most Sun Sysadmins I know install all of the GNU utils right
after they install Solaris.  I think Sun has a seperate disk now with all
the GNU stuff on it, don't they?

Still, they might not find it too funny to be GNU/Solaris.  :-)