HomeBrew
🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux) (by Homebrew)
Docker-OSX
Run Mac in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X! (by sickcodes)
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| HomeBrew | Docker-OSX | |
|---|---|---|
| 409 | 34 | |
| 30,032 | 18,245 | |
| 2.5% | - | |
| 10.0 | 8.8 | |
| 4 days ago | 12 days ago | |
| Ruby | Shell | |
| BSD 2-clause "Simplified" License | GNU General Public License v3.0 only |
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.
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.
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 2021-11-24.
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Binary confusion - first steps of a new MacOS user
Check out homebrew (https://brew.sh/); it may feel a bit more familiar coming from the *NIX/*BSD world for application management.
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ios 14 iphone 6s failed to activate device
using sliver I cant activate. after installing necessary files and jailbreaking with checkra1n when clicking the reach home button, ideviceactivation and libimobiledevice arent found in terminal. I installed brew.sh but idk what else needs to be done
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Is Macbook Air M1 (16/512) good for Web Development
Yes, indeed it is. I had the 13" MacBook Pro M1 and used VSCode with a nice Apache/PHP/MySQL install using Homebrew ( https://brew.sh ). I used DBeaver Community for database management.
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Ask HN: What the best and worst command-line interfaces you have used?
Two of my favourites are Watson and Homebrew. Very well thought out.
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What's the best free Mac app to manually log time at the end of the day?
It's a package manager that automates installation and maintenance of applications. Thousands of them. See https://brew.sh for details.
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How to install Homebrew on Mavericks in 2021 ?
==> Downloading and installing Homebrew...fatal: unable to access 'https://github.com/Homebrew/brew/': SSL certificate problem: Invalid certificate chainFailed during: git fetch origin --force
Homebrew member here. Although we don't actively support macOS versions older than what Apple issues security updates for, we do try to at least keep brew itself working on 10.10 and later (I myself run 10.12 at home). OS X 10.9 was the first to ship with built-in support for TLS 1.2 (which has become a de facto minimum requirement to even browse the web these days), so there's bound to be bugs. Also, every macOS version older than 10.15.5 was hit with this issue that took a lot of work to route around. Sorry there isn't an easier answer than "try MacPorts" or "use a newer machine to pre-download everything beforehand".
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Any recommended binary package managers?
I have little experience personally to recommend it, but Homebrew (https://brew.sh/) should work, and seems to be just what you are looking for.
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Why do I need homebrew on a Mac?
See https://brew.sh/
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How to open large excel files on mac?
If you have an actual xlsx file you might want to look into some sort of tool to convert from xlsx to csv. You can probably get xls2csv with homebrew from https://brew.sh
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.
- Run Mac in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X! (/r/osx)
- Run Mac in a Docker! Run near native OSX-KVM in Docker! X11 Forwarding! CI/CD for OS X!
- Can I test my flutter app on a physical (not emulated) apple phone from a windows environment?
- React Native With Docker and Why?
- I havent budget for MacOS
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Coding a notetaking iOS app
There's Docker-OSX which might be able to circumvent that? https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
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MBP 13 (M1) vs upcoming M1X (React Native Development)
I used to remote into it from vscode on an underpowered laptop and it worked fantastically. Didn't have it set up for iOS dev but this would be worth a go.
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[Help] Can I jailbreak my phone using LINUX on CROUTON with a chrome book?
Yes, https://github.com/sickcodes/Docker-OSX
What are some alternatives?
When comparing HomeBrew and Docker-OSX you can also consider the following projects:
lima - Linux virtual machines, on macOS (aka "Linux-on-Mac", "macOS subsystem for Linux", "containerd for Mac", unofficially)
macOS-Simple-KVM - Tools to set up a quick macOS VM in QEMU, accelerated by KVM.
Visual Studio Code - Visual Studio Code
Chocolatey - Chocolatey - the package manager for Windows
podman-macos - 📦 Podman frontend for macOS
macos-virtualbox - Push-button installer of macOS Catalina, Mojave, and High Sierra guests in Virtualbox for Windows, Linux, and macOS
osxfuse - FUSE extends macOS by adding support for user space file systems
nvm - Node Version Manager - POSIX-compliant bash script to manage multiple active node.js versions
chromebrew - Package manager for Chrome OS
pycryptodome - A self-contained cryptographic library for Python
PHP Brew - Brew & manage PHP versions in pure PHP at HOME
pdf-tools - Emacs support library for PDF files.