Comments on: How to how-to?

By: Help

Help — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:42:03 +0000

Your expertise is desperately needed here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/311840/tool-to-trace-local-function-calls-in-linux

and/or here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/311948

It is amazing this is so hard with Linux. (or is it?)

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Fedora 11 Feature Process Swings Into Action « Poelcat — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 05:24:24 +0000

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By: David Arnold

David Arnold — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 03:23:24 +0000

I’d vote for an LWN article too, even if it in turn pointed to the series of blog entries. I very seldom bother to watch videos or screencasts — stick to text which is easier to produce and consume, and works much better with search engines too.

BTW … very keen to see the end result. Thanks!

By: Scott Tsai

Scott Tsai — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 07:37:15 +0000

I think both a lwn.net article and tracking this as a Fedora 11 feature are excellent suggestions.

By: Alexander Larsson » Blog Archive » Gdb is dead. Long live Gdb!

Alexander Larsson » Blog Archive » Gdb is dead. Long live Gdb! — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:00:23 +0000

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By: Simon Kagstrom

Simon Kagstrom — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:27:42 +0000

I’d like an article series on LWN, a bit like Ulrich Drepper did with his memory articles (although maybe a bit shorter).

I’ve not yet gotten used to screencasts, but perhaps that’s something to consider as well to demonstrate neat GDB features.

// Simon

By: Mark Wielaard

Mark Wielaard — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:45:16 +0000

I think a series of blog entries with simple examples will be most effective. Organize them in such a way that they can easily be looked up and/or turned into part of the manual. Start with the “OK, this is how you get started, fetch, build, run hello.py”, then each day introduce a fun command, convenience function, or explain what the python representation of core gdb data structures are and how you would use/manipulate them. Keep the posts short, but each one a practical complete example and you will most likely get people coming back for more.

I have to admit that I don’t actually read any paper magazins anymore. But if you manage to get something published in something like LWN that would certainly bring you lots of deep technical readers.

Fosdem is obviously my favourite, but that is on the wrong side of the ocean for you The GCC summit seems appropriate for this kind of thing if you want something specialized. But you can do a lightning talk anywhere. Andrew Haley once did a “look me being a wizard with gdb” then minutes hands on and it was great to see someone actually drill down and come up with useful info on a program.

By: Dave Malcolm

Dave Malcolm — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:11:03 +0000

Please track this as a feature for this for Fedora 11!

Talk to John Poelstra, and see:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Dashboard