Best Integrated development environments (IDEs) for Python.

1. Eric Python IDE

Eric is a full featured Python and Ruby editor and IDE, written in python. It is based on the cross platform Qt gui toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as everdays' quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool integrating many advanced features Python offers the professional coder. eric4 includes a plugin system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plugins downloadable from the net.

2. Komdo Edit

Komodo Edit is a free text editor for dynamic programming languages introduced in January 2007. With the release of version 4.3, Komodo Edit is built on top of the Open Komodo project.Komodo Edit inherits many features of Komodo IDE, like the full range of supported languages (Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, Tcl) and platforms (Linux, Mac OS X, and Windows ). And like Komodo IDE, Komodo Edit also supports browser-side languages like JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and XML.It was developed for programmers who need a multi-language editor with broad functionality, but not the features of an IDE, like debugging, DOM viewer, interactive shells, and source code control integration.

3. MonoDevelop

MonoDevelop is an open source integrated development environment for the Linux platform, Mac OS X, and Microsoft Windows, primarily targeted for the development of software that uses both the Mono and Microsoft .NET framework. MonoDevelop integrates features similar to that of NetBeans and Microsoft's Visual Studio such as automatic completion, source control integration, and an integrated GUI and Web designer. MonoDevelop integrates a Gtk# GUI designer called Stetic. It currently has language support for C#, Java, Boo, Visual Basic.NET, Oxygene, CIL, Python, Vala, C and C++.

Parted Magic OS: a linux distro specifically for partitioning tasks.

Parted Magic is a business-card operating system based on Slackware Linux, with programs that allow you to partition hard disks with ease. Programs like Partition Image, TestDisk, fdisk, sfdisk, dd, ddrescue, and a good documentation will help you in your partitioning tasks. Parted Magic is licensed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).

Features

• Format internal and external hard drives.
• Move, copy, create, delete, expand & shrink hard drive partitions.
• Clone your hard drive, to create a full backup.
• Test hard drives for impending failure.
• Test memory for bad sectors.
• Benchmark your computer for a performace rating.
• Securely erase your entire hard drive, wiping it clean from all data.
• Gives access to non-booting systems allowing you to rescue important data.
• Runs from the CD, no install required.

Patrick Verner (the creator of part magic) announced on June 14th the immediate availability of a new version of his popular Parted Magic operating system. Parted Magic 4.11 comes now with Linux kernel 2.6.32.15, Partclone 2.3, and many other updated packages, as well as some bug fixes and improvements. Parted Magic is an operating system created to help users easily partition their hard drives or perform various recovery tasks.

Download Part Magic 4.11

Desktop Earth : set a rotating earth as your desktop wallpaper (Windows)

Desktop Earth is a wallpaper generator. It will generate a high-resolution, accurate representation of the Earth. The imagery is based on NASA's Blue Marble Next and Earth's City Lights. It is a small system tray utility that will automate the process of downloading snapshots of the Earth from NASA, complete with snow, cloud cover, and a host of other configuration options.

                                                      

Desktop Earth will sit in your systray, run whenever you are  logged on, and continuously update your wallpaper with an accurate representation of the Earth. There is no limit on the resolution, and the imagery is calculated from high-resolution 2560x1280 textures, so you can go wild with it even on 30" flat panel displays. Multi-monitor configurations are also supported.

 
DesktopEarthSetup.msi (6 MB)

Gambas Almost Means BASIC. BASIC for linux users.

Gambas is a free development environment based on a Basic interpreter with object extensions, a bit like Visual Basic™ (but it is NOT a clone !). With Gambas, you can quickly design your program GUI with QT or GTK+, access MySQL, PostgreSQL, Firebird, ODBC and SQLite databases, pilot KDE applications with DCOP, translate your program into any language, create network applications easily, make 3D OpenGL applications, make CGI web applications, and so on...

Gambas is made up of the following programs:

• A compiler.
• An interpreter.
• An archiver.
• A graphical user interface component.
• A development environment.

Mozilla Firefox 4.0 beta is available to download.

Firefox 4 is perhaps the most eagerly awaited version of Firefox till date. which is scheduled to release around the end of this year with impressive UI and performance enhancements including mozilla’s new revamped Javascript engine. beta releases are available to download in mozilla’s directory of nightly builds for Windows , linux and OS X in both x86 and x64 systems.

(The new tabs-on-top  UI is not available for linux yet)

Rumor  has it that  Firefox 4.0 Beta is very much faster compared to the latest stable release and It is around 30% faster than Firefox 3.6.6. However, this is still not even nearly as fast as browsers like Opera and Google Chrome and also  that Firefox 4.0 has a much faster JavaScript engine than Firefox 3.6.6.

It completely outshines Firefox 3.6.6 in every way but memory consumption. As this is only a beta, I expect this to get fixed. The new tab on top interface is still not available in Linux yet, but hope that it will be available before long.

Download Firefox 4.0 beta  for Windows ( 32 bit | 64 bit)

Download Firefox 4.0 beta  for Linux ( 32 bit | 64 bit)   (Installation guide)

Download Firefox 4.0 beta  for Mac OS ( 32 bit | 64 bit)