well... i was , too. and if you heavily require debugging tools this can really get on your nerves. after updating to lynx i immediatly noticed the slower debugger. but google popped up no results on how to solve this, or even if other people are noticing this.... so after playing around with it i finally solved the problem brute force: i downloaded latest gdb (7.1) from http://www.gnu.org/software/gdb/download/ and compiled it myself. if you are a former windows user or unexperienced with that, dont let self-compiling scare you away: compiling it for yourself is simpler than you may think: download the .tar (with the browser of your choice), unzip it (easiest is with nautilus), go to commandline and type: ./configure after its done, do: make after THAT is done you will have a gdb executable in the "gdb" folder!