Re: [Haifux] lecture suggestion: gdb in greater depth

2009-01-13 Thread Hai Zaar
On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 11:47 PM, guy keren c...@actcom.co.il wrote: Since i've moved back to using gdb alot, and since i got tired of the limitations from the past, i started digging deeper into the documentation, and found a wealth of features that were added to gdb over the years (some

[Haifux] Welcome2Linux?

2009-01-13 Thread Amichai Rotman
Hello Haifa Linuxers! I wonder - why was it so long since we had Welcome 2 Linux lectures in Haifa? I had a couple of friends at home a week a go that have just installed Linux on their Laptops. One of them told me he haven't turned on his Window$ machine for more than a week and he is really

Re: [Haifux] Welcome2Linux?

2009-01-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/13 Amichai Rotman amic...@iglu.org.il Hello Haifa Linuxers! I wonder - why was it so long since we had Welcome 2 Linux lectures in Haifa? I had a couple of friends at home a week a go that have just installed Linux on their Laptops. One of them told me he haven't turned on his

Re: [Haifux] [CALL FOR LECTURE] R programming Language

2009-01-13 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/1/13 Eli Billauer e...@billauer.co.il: And in case someone picks up on this offer, I suggest comparing with MATLAB. Or Octave, if you're into free software. My impression was that it's basically the same principle, and we're facing Yet Another Language (TM). R is not meant to0 compete

Re: [Haifux] lecture suggestion: gdb in greater depth

2009-01-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 14:15:33 Eli Billauer wrote: Orr, please book him! I don't care if it will be him and me only. By the way, isn't gdb still the backend for *all* debugging tools under Linux? Not really. First of all, high-level languages like Perl, Python, Ruby, etc. have their

Re: [Haifux] lecture suggestion: gdb in greater depth

2009-01-13 Thread Shlomi Fish
On Tuesday 13 January 2009 15:35:49 Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:22:44PM +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote: I should note that about a month ago, I considered to finally contribute to gdb by fixing bugs, but then saw that they are still using CVS. I asked on IRC why that was still