http://askubuntu.com – I'm looking around for a way to program some gui apps in ubuntu 12.04. I ran across the quickly tutorial http://developer.ubuntu.com/get-started/ and the tool looks fantastic. It looks like the primary language you develop with is python, which is fine with me. But i know that i will need to link in c (or other compiled) code for intensive number crunching and to take advantage of the huge numb (HowTos)