Linux talk after 20 years of use

purfectcat — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 22:40:07 +0000

Have been using many Linux distributions over the years. Here's my take on them.

Gentoo linux: great linux distro but for students/unemployed, compile everything on your system.. who has time for that?
Debian Linux: great distro but many vulnerabilities and software often outdated
Ubuntu: debian based, canonical a bit shady, hate snaps
Fedora: ok distro, fedora package management is slow, the company may cancel the distro at any point (CentOS where are you?)
Suse: german distro, uses rpms. works okayish
Slackware: old distro, don't think it had a package manager 20 years ago. Maybe things changed
Mint: had a security issue, domain ssl expired. Based on ubuntu, but don't really trust them
Manjaro: new packages, but unstable distro

It is really hard to find a good Linux distro, even after 20 years of Linux. So the BSDs maybe?

BSD Unix

OpenBSD: takes security very seriously. But at the same time, can't do all my coding work on it. Still uses X instead of Wayland? seems more server orientated. Is it worth it? a secure computer will never exist
FreeBSD: ipv6 security hole fixed yet? not gonna use this
NetBSD: never used, any good?

Commercial systems?

Windows: no thanks, doesn't even come with bash
Mac: works as average user, annoys me as developer. Had some issues with Lua packages, app store annoys me about passwords, apple complaining about signing etc. It's no fun developing on mac

Sure you can do vuejs on all of them, but I'm regularly doing system level programming. Looking for a system that takes security seriously but is also good for development.

So what do you use for development?

Thus far I'm stuck with Debian/Ubuntu. I enjoyed Gentoo but don't have time to install it.

Python function

purfectcat — Thu, 14 Jan 2021 18:20:12 +0000

Hello, everybody and welcome to a python 3 article. We're going to be discussing the basics of a python function.

The idea of a function is to assign a set of code and possibly variables known as parameters to a single bit of text.

So you can think of it a lot like why you choose to write and save a program rather than writing out the entire program every time you want to execute it or in a much smaller scale.

Create function

So to begin a function you define the function by using the Keyword def short for Define?

def food():
    task
    task
    task

in this notifies python of the impending function definition

From there you're going to type out whatever name you want to refer to your function as now you want to be kind of careful
in the name of your function.

Just like you would want to be careful in the name of your variable you want to choose something unique, and it's not going to conflict with anything else.

def food():
    print('2x bread')
    print('3x cheese')

Rules

Now if you define a function and you call the time it's going to conflict with the time module should you use it so you don't want to use time?

So for us, we're just going to use example and after the definition of the functions name you have the parentheses and within the parentheses you have any parameters.

void hello() 
{
    printf("hello world\n");
    printf("this is in C\n");
}

For now, we're just gonna leave those empty, but I will show you guys in some future article how to use parameters after.

Going to be your function block so as you type code and you hit enter you've got this is all contained in your function

def function():
    inside 
    inside
    inside
    inside

outside

And then finally when you come over here and start typing more code that's outside of the function.

so this is the function so that's kind of the idea of python functions whereas other programming languages generally you're going to have curly braces and you type within the curly braces.

When do we use functions?

In Python, you use functions all the time. Even functions of other people or the python standard library like the input function

we use just indent and indent only so for example. We're just going to say print basic function. so this is the function basics