Fonty Python is available from the fontypython package in both Debian and Ubuntu in Universe. Fonty is a wxPython app so will work in any desktop environment. It also has a command-line interface which avoids the gui.

Interview with Guido van Rossum confined to Python 3 release. Discussion about development tendentions and better development process.

What once was the primary method of inter-hardware communication, the serial port now seems to be considered more of a legacy form of communication as more applications are networked. However, I don't think I am the only one that still has the need to interface equipment or applications that only talk through the serial port.

"Celebrate the new year with a blog post discussing the oldest files that are still sitting somewhere beneath your home directory! The procedure is simple: ..."

This week Python 3.0 was released, and it represents one of those rare instances: Python 3.0 was designed to clear up a lot of now-inertial legacy issues with the Python language and figure out good ways to do things now instead of unquestioningly sticking with what seemed like good ways (or, more often, the least painful ways) to do things five or ten years ago.

"...If you're content with the engineering or craft side of things, Marty, this sort of stuff probably isn't important. But if you're interested in computational theory, the mathematical foundations of computing, the computational foundations of mathematics or just what these guys Turing, Gödel, Curry and Church got up to all those years ago, this stuff is pretty core...."

The whole design was done for 100% with free software. The biggest part consists of custom software in Python, of course within the SPE editor. For the visual power I used PIL and pyCairo. From time to time also Gimp, Inkscape and Phatch helped quite a bit. All the developing and processing was done on GNU/Linux machines which were running Ubuntu/Debian.