System tool in Linux

Hello,
i'm using ubuntu 10.10 with eclipse CDT to develop my embedded application.

i worked in the passed with Windriver company tool (Workbench) for the vxworks RTOS. i know they have also linux support but it cost a lot of money.

anyway, i would like to here from you guys aboute a better IDE than eclipse (i loved windriver workbench which is eclipse like IDE, but has much more that the regular eclipse CDT IDE).

i'm also intrested in system tools. Windriver has some great tools and i know they ported it aalso to linux based on open-source tools.
i mean: system view (which is kind of a softwre logic that can show interupts, task and much more), profiler, mem scope (to find memory leaks) and also code covarage tool.

can someone, maybe also femiliar with Windriver tools, can advice such tools for me to use?

thanks,
Eli

I think Eclipse is probably the closest thing to the WindRiver tools you will find in Linux. AFAIK, most cross development in Linux is done using discrete commandline/text-mode tools. Eclipse can be used to host debugging on remote targets, although I've never really used that. For non-hardware-specific code, development & testing on conventional hosts and then cross-building for the embedded target works well when using Linux in both scenarios.

--- rod.