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Why Linux?

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » May 6th, 2018, 3:28 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=82wtnlYIWeA
Tinker Board S SBC used as my only computer for a whole week! This video demonstrates how the Asus Tinker Board S can reliably run a wide range of local and web apps. And I also fit a larger heatsink and do some cooling tests.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » June 11th, 2018, 3:55 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txVIlioe2xU

Ubuntu Studio combines the Ubuntu Linux operating system with a wide range of free creative applications. In this video I install the software and demonstrate the Audacity audio editor, Yoshimi synthesizer, Hydroden drum sequencer, GIMP photo editor, Inkspace vector graphics package, Krita and MyPaint digital painting programs, Scribus DTP package, Blender 3D modeller, and the Kdenlive, OpenShot and Pitivi video editors.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » June 27th, 2018, 1:57 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crsp_He70no&t=606s
Python 3 programming tutorial, including installation in Windows; use of the integrated development environment (IDLE); defining, inputting and formatting string and numeric variables; creating IF statements and while loops; and importing libraries.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby ReformedCharacter » June 27th, 2018, 2:20 pm

Infrasonic wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crsp_He70no&t=606s
Python 3 programming tutorial, including installation in Windows; use of the integrated development environment (IDLE); defining, inputting and formatting string and numeric variables; creating IF statements and while loops; and importing libraries.


Python is good but (maybe it's just me) IDLE is ghastly.

RC

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » June 27th, 2018, 4:26 pm

Any opinions on better solutions are welcome, I'll freely admit I'm at the very beginner stage when it come to command line/programming languages, but I want to get comfortable with IoT so it's a necessary evil for me.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby kyu66 » June 27th, 2018, 4:36 pm

Infrasonic wrote:Any opinions on better solutions are welcome, I'll freely admit I'm at the very beginner stage when it come to command line/programming languages, but I want to get comfortable with IoT so it's a necessary evil for me.


Python is fine, just use your code text editor of choice for writing code (colour coding language support for Python etc) and then run python scripts from the command line rather than using IDLE .

I write tests using unittest and Nose see http://pythontesting.net/framework/nose ... troduction.

HTH

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby ReformedCharacter » June 27th, 2018, 4:38 pm

Infrasonic wrote:Any opinions on better solutions are welcome, I'll freely admit I'm at the very beginner stage when it come to command line/programming languages, but I want to get comfortable with IoT so it's a necessary evil for me.


Here are a few alternatives to IDLE:

https://www.techradar.com/news/best-ide-for-python

Atom looks promising but I haven't tried it.

RC

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby kiloran » June 27th, 2018, 4:48 pm

ReformedCharacter wrote:
Infrasonic wrote:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Crsp_He70no&t=606s
Python 3 programming tutorial, including installation in Windows; use of the integrated development environment (IDLE); defining, inputting and formatting string and numeric variables; creating IF statements and while loops; and importing libraries.


Python is good but (maybe it's just me) IDLE is ghastly.

RC

I really like Python but I agree IDLE is not so good. I guess it's just one step up from command line so it's basic but limited.

I normally use Eclipse IDE with PyDev plug-in for code development and debugging and I'm very happy with that. I've occasionally used JetBrains Pycharm IDE and it's not bad, though I prefer Eclipse. Both Eclipse and PyCharm are free, of course.

I've heard that Visual Studio with Python extension is good, maybe I'll get around to looking at it one day

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby XFool » June 27th, 2018, 9:16 pm

The disc of my old XP3 PC workhorse - all my finncial records and emails - blew out on switch on one morning earlier in the year. My last backup was some time in the 1950s. After spending a lot of dosh I got my data back but am still not up and running.

So... what? I came near to just buying a new Dell Inspiron, but I just DON'T WANT Windows 10! So it's a second hand PC and buy a Win 8.1 CD? OR... I've always wanted to be running Unix. My preference would be BSD Unix, so Free BSD? (Compatible with Free Pascal Compiler). But then I discovered there is OpenBSD, which sounds intellectually appealing. But how compatible and easy is it for a beginner? Then there are all the different GUIs...

How long is all this going to take to set up, install a GUI, install Open/Libre Office... I need to get stuck in to my 2017 Tax Return at some point. Back to a second hand PC and Win 8.1, perhaps? When did it all get to be so difficult?

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Urbandreamer » June 27th, 2018, 9:54 pm

XFool wrote:My preference would be BSD Unix, so Free BSD? (Compatible with Free Pascal Compiler). But then I discovered there is OpenBSD, which sounds intellectually appealing. But how compatible and easy is it for a beginner? Then there are all the different GUIs...


Look I'm not going to Diss BSD, but seriously don't go there. If you remember BSD, you will have little to no problem with any Linux distro. Most these days are based upon Debian, or rather upon Ubuntu, which is based upon Debian.

It's very little different from BSD when you get down to the command line.

I think that most do a free Pascal compiler.
ie just type "sudo apt-get install fp-compiler"

Of course if you do want to get down and dirty in kernal level coding, then given that you know BSD, that's the way to go. But if you don't want to write code, then another *nix is likely to get quicker security updates.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby ReformedCharacter » June 28th, 2018, 11:40 am

kiloran wrote:I really like Python but I agree IDLE is not so good. I guess it's just one step up from command line so it's basic but limited.

I normally use Eclipse IDE with PyDev plug-in for code development and debugging and I'm very happy with that. I've occasionally used JetBrains Pycharm IDE and it's not bad, though I prefer Eclipse. Both Eclipse and PyCharm are free, of course.

I've heard that Visual Studio with Python extension is good, maybe I'll get around to looking at it one day

--kiloran


Now I come to think of it, I've heard good things about Eclipse\PyDev. I just thought I'd mention that I recently installed VS 2017 Community Edition to do some VB.net work. Trying to install as little as possible, it came to about 2.5 GB! I use 'disposable' VirtualBox Win7 clones for this. Several of my children have been sent home from school with a Python project to complete (this was a few years ago) and they didn't find IDLE easy. Perhaps modern versions are a bit more useable. I did briefly try VS with the Python extension and it looked good but I'd guess that if you get on with Eclipse then you would have little to gain with VS and you would at least avoid having your OS peppershot with extra stuff that you don't otherwise need.

RC

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby madhatter » June 28th, 2018, 2:31 pm

IDLE is ghastly.


It has its peculiarities, all righty.

iPython offers an alternative, though my version of that was a few years ago. Python can also be run in Notebook form in the browser, which is very convenient for running short snippets and fairly short scripts.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » August 1st, 2018, 10:29 am

https://spectrum.ieee.org/at-work/innov ... -languages

...Python has tightened its grip on the No. 1 spot. Last year it came out on top by just barely beating out C, with Python’s score of 100 to C’s 99.7. But this year, there’s a wider gap between first and second place, with C++ coming in at 98.4 for the No. 2 slot (last year, Java had come third with a score of 99.4, while this year its fallen to 4th place with a score of 97.5). C has fallen to third place, with a score of 98.2.

Cont.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » August 1st, 2018, 10:51 am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rfZ9FW ... aUels06zun

Raspberry Pi operating systems overview, including Raspbian, Retropie, OSMC and many more cool distros. And I even play a homebrew NES game!

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » August 14th, 2018, 7:42 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CeoNHGF ... 3147843344

ROCKPro64 single board computer review, including its full specification, coverage of the board’s wide range of accessories, and a demo running Ubuntu 18.04 with LXDE desktop.



Usb 3.0, Gb Ethernet and PCIe 2.1 4X...Nice little DIY NAS or Router board with the right bits added on...

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » November 18th, 2018, 2:26 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hD1Jmjp ... Dk7Kxn%3A6

NanoPi NEO4 SBC review and demo, including running Lubuntu and FriendlyELEC, installation and operation of Kodi media player, a quick test of OpenMediaVault, and fitting an extra USB port.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » November 18th, 2018, 2:33 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njyRy-gkTHk

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LattePanda Alpha Windows and Linux SBC review and demo, including full specification, installation of a WD Black NVME M.2 SSD, and other performance tests. Also details of the LattePanda Delta.


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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » December 5th, 2018, 11:24 am

https://thishosting.rocks/best-lightwei ... x-distros/

With the feedback and requests we got from our Best Linux Distros for Gaming list, we had to do another list of the best lightweight Linux distros. Actually, some of them fit both our categories. Sure, there are other similar lists our there, but this one has up-to-date info and we’ve personally tried and tested (almost) every distro on our old laptops. It took us 7 months to compile this list and a few weeks to update it with new data! We’ve seen new lists that included distros with their latest update being in 2005. Come on, how is that distro still relevant and good in 2018? And don’t get us started on how each list is just a rehashed version of the same 5 distros. We purposefully included many distros in our list so you have more options to choose from. All distros are free and can run on ~512MB RAM or less. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, just pick any distro.

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » January 6th, 2019, 2:15 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oL4w3AK ... w2dEdg%3A6

RISC OS review and demo on a Raspberry Pi 3 B+, including running BBC BASIC. RISC OS was originally designed by Acorn in 1987 as the first operating system for an ARM processor, and now has its source code managed by RISC OS Open Limited (ROOL).

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Re: Why Linux?

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Postby Infrasonic » January 20th, 2019, 4:40 pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5REJCaayl6Y
ExplainingComputers Published on 20 Jan 2019
LattePanda Alpha SBC used as my only computer for a week! Video includes dual-boot Windows 10 and Linux Mint 19.1, entering the BIOS, performance benchmarks, power use, and video editing and compositing in Blackmagic Design’s Fusion and DaVinci Resolve. And I even add an extra USB port!


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