Choosing the perfect Linux distribution that satisfies your personal needs and likings can be an impossible task, and oftentimes requires a hint of Stockholm syndrome as compromise. In extreme cases, ...

Someone recreated Windows 8.1's tiled Start menu for Linux — a niche, open-source throwback. It's Python-based, supports ...

The language of choice for large, high-performance applications in Linux is almost always C, or somewhat less often C++. Both are powerful languages that allow you to create high-performance natively ...

Python is powerful, versatile, and programmer-friendly, but it isn’t the fastest programming language around. Some of Python’s speed limitations are due to its default implementation, CPython, being ...

As Python’s popularity rises, its limitations are becoming more clear. For one thing, it can be very hard to write a Python application and distribute it to people who don’t have Python installed. The ...

Python's "multiprocessing" module feels like threads, but actually launches processes. Many people, when they start to work with Python, are excited to hear that the language supports threading. And, ...