CeBIT 2010 CFP

Python paterfamilias Guido van Rossum has proposed a multi-year moratorium on the scripting language: no more grammar or semantic changes.

An SSH connection to a not directly linked system frequently makes at least one hop through the DMZ. The Belier tool simplifies this process. The program is now available in Debian's sid repository.

The Facebook social networking site has made Tornado, its Python framework for web apps, available under Apache License 2.0.

Flumotion, a free server for video and audio streaming over the Internet, was made compatible with Python 2.6 in version 0.6.1 .

Synctool, a configuration managemment tool that synchronizes computer clusters, is available in a new 4.0 version. The software underwent some internal rework and picks up new features.

The PySide LPGL Python binding for Qt is new and the Python::OpenCL wrapper now runs with AMD's ATI Stream SDK.

What do Python 2.x programmers need to know about Python 3?

The Live distro SLAMPP is now available in version 2.0. It is a system of Linux containing, among other things, Apache, MySQL, PHP and Perl, hence the moniker SLAMPP.