Docker-OSX VS HomeBrew

Compare Docker-OSX vs HomeBrew and see what are their differences.

Docker-OSX

Run macOS VM in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X Security Research! Docker mac Containers. (by sickcodes)

HomeBrew

🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (by Homebrew)
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Docker-OSX HomeBrew
109 1100
29,441 35,444
- 2.1%
5.0 10.0
2 months ago 4 days ago
Shell Ruby
GNU General Public License v3.0 only BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License
The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Docker-OSX

Posts with mentions or reviews of Docker-OSX. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-22.

HomeBrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of HomeBrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-21.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Docker-OSX and HomeBrew you can also consider the following projects:

lima - Linux virtual machines, typically on macOS, for running containerd

macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.

spack - A flexible package manager that supports multiple versions, configurations, platforms, and compilers.

asdf - Extendable version manager with support for Ruby, Node.js, Elixir, Erlang & more

Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code

osxfuse - FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems

Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows

winget-cli - Windows Package Manager CLI (aka winget)

nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions

ohmyzsh - 🙃 A delightful community-driven (with 2,100+ contributors) framework for managing your zsh configuration. Includes 300+ optional plugins (rails, git, macOS, hub, docker, homebrew, node, php, python, etc), 140+ themes to spice up your morning, and an auto-update tool so that makes it easy to keep up with the latest updates from the community.

chromebrew - Package manager for Chrome OS [Moved to: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew]

podman-macos - 📦 Podman frontend for macOS