Debugging solutions for desktop Linux application code are mature and widely used. Nonetheless, there are cases in which desktop debugging techniques are not sufficient to efficiently identify bugs ...

Oracle has fully integrated the long-awaited Linux DTrace debugging tool into the latest release of its Linux distribution, potentially allowing administrators and developers to pinpoint the cause ...

Green Hills Software's MULTI enables developers to seamlessly control and debug all aspects of an embedded Linux system, including the Linux kernel, kernel threads, user mode threads and processes ...

Novell has introduced a project to help find problems in the inner workings of Linux. Novell's Clyde Griffin announced the Novell Linux Kernel Debugger in June on the Linux kernel mailing list.

The Linux kernel debugger (KDB) allows you to debug the Linux kernel. This aptly named tool is essentially a patch to the kernel code that lets hackers access kernel memory and data structures. One of ...

A recent post about debugging constructs surprised me. There were quite a few comments about how you didn’t need a debugger, as long as you had printf. For that matter, we’ve all debugg… ...

A built-in debugger for the kernel is one missing feature that some enterprise vendors have added. Will the mainstream kernel be able to agree on an approach to this surprisingly contentious issue?