On Tue, 18 Aug 1998, Andrew Bell wrote:
> - Accelerated-X is the only X Server that supports my video card at the
> moment (Diamond Stealth II G460), does anybody else around here use it? If
> so, what do they think (apparently it's a faster server than XFree86 and
> even MetroX) but is its only advantage refresh speed?
I noticed very little difference in speed between XFree86 and
Accelerated-X on my system. I understand that the results vary wildly
depending on the video card and other factors.
As far as I know speed and smoothness are Accelerated-X's supposed claims
to fame. Also, there was a time when XFree's card support was quite
inferior to Accelerated X's...that seems to have changed ever since SuSe
got in on it.
> - gdb, when is this thing going to get better? I used xdb (which is now
> defunct) on an HP-UX machine, and I found it 10 times better in terms of
> usability and flexibility than gdb. Am I missing something? Bear in mind
> that I don't find (X)Emacs all that usable either. Are there better
> debuggers out there that are commonly used?
DDD is probably the nicest visual debugger I've seen. Check out:
http://www.cs.tu-bs.de/softech/ddd/
There's also xxgdb which is more like xdb. There's a couple others as
well, search for "debugger" or "IDE" on www.linuxapps.com.
Note that all of these actually sit on top of your normal debugger, which
is gdb by default.
Adam
