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Tips on GitHub Actions

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. You can use sudo without password in Linux and macOS when running GitHub Actions.

  2. GitHub Actions supports manual triggers with workflow_dispatch. Workflow parameters are supported in manually triggers …

Windows Emulation on Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Virtual machine is the recommend way to emulate Windows working environment on Linux.

Windows Virtual Machine

  1. A Windows virtual machine (e.g., using Virtual Machine Manager) provides a full working Windows …

Linux Administrator Tools

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. BCC is a toolkit for creating efficient kernel tracing and manipulation programs leveraging extended Berkeley Packet Filters (eBPF).

  2. webmin, cloudmin, usermin

  3. id, adduser, gpasswd (recommended for adding/removing groups)

  4. RustNet, uptime …

Dual Boot Linux and Windows

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

I personally don't see much value in dual booting Linux and Windows. Please refer to Windows Emulation on Linux if you need to run Windows apps on Linux.

Mount the Windows …