Fedora Linux – How to Completely Remove X-Windows from Fedora

There's nothing that dictates that Fedora is unsuited for use on servers, nor is there anything that dictates that "server distros" is the only choice for servers. It depends on your particular needs.

What you may gain from using the "server distros" is:

• long term support
• stable API's (little to no version-upgrades of libraries and applications)
• backported securityfixes and bugfixes
• paid support

My main "complaint" for the server-distros is that software/libraries tend to to be somewhat old, and the range of supported packages is much smaller than community driven efforts.

I.e. the long term support and the non-changing API's is something that commercial software vendors love, they won't have to rebuild their application for the newest libraries because the API suddenly changed. They can develop for Vendor Y Release X and know that this platform will be around for several years to come.

This error seems to have occurred as a fluke.

After completely uninstalling the Firebird Super Server using yum with the following command

yum remove firebird*

and removing all the directories related to Firebird:

find / -name firebird*
rm -rf [firebird directory name]

and then reinstalling using

yum install firebird*

Seems to have fixed the problem the second time around.