chromebrew vs frost

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chromebrew		frost
	Project
16	Mentions	1
2,234	Stars	0
1.9%	Growth	-
9.9	Activity	4.8
3 days ago	Latest Commit	8 months ago
Ruby	Language	Shell
GNU General Public License v3.0 only	License	Apache License 2.0

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.

chromebrew

Posts with mentions or reviews of chromebrew. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-03-20.

If ChromeOS is just a fork of Gentoo Linux, why can’t ChromeOS run Linux apps natively? Why do Linux apps have to run in a virtual machine?
1 project | /r/chromeos | 10 Jul 2023
How do package managers keep track of installed files?
1 project | /r/linux | 23 May 2023

With Chromebrew we just implemented a global manifest of package filelists. Everything is a flat file. You can browse ours here: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew/tree/master/manifest
Flatpak on Chrome OS without Crostini
1 project | /r/chromeos | 30 Mar 2023

TO OP: try something called https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew
Tweaks for a low end machine?
3 projects | /r/firefox | 20 Mar 2023

Hmm
If operating systems were girlfriends...
1 project | /r/linuxmemes | 6 Feb 2023
Linux almost 3% of the global desktop market share - Jan 2022 and Dec 2022
2 projects | /r/linux | 30 Jan 2023
Vi gone from /usr/bin, terminal no longer in browser tab, vi under crostini gets extra keystrokes
2 projects | /r/chromeos | 4 Jan 2023

Apparently works on a vanilla Chromebook, no Crouton or Crostini, but must be in developer mode as stated here: https://github.com/chromebrew/chromebrew
Firefox added to chromebrew, allowing native Firefox on chrome os.
1 project | /r/firefox | 21 Dec 2022
Crouton still dead? Worth the grief?
1 project | /r/Crouton | 10 Nov 2022

Have you tried chromebrew. Unlike crouton it seems to be in active development.
Functional difference between terminals?
2 projects | /r/chromeos | 5 Nov 2022

Because it's not intended that ChromeOS users should need to modify the base operating system (e.g. to install software), it doesn't come with a package manager like apt or emerge. (However, you can install one if you want using something like Chromebrew* or Crouton*.)

frost

Posts with mentions or reviews of frost. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-03-23.

Also unhelpful complex advice
2 projects | /r/linuxmemes | 23 Mar 2021

I use a custom wrapper around yaourt.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing chromebrew and frost you can also consider the following projects:

crouton - Chromium OS Universal Chroot Environment

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

HomeBrew - 🍺 The missing package manager for macOS (or Linux)

brunch - Boot ChromeOS on x86_64 PC - supports Intel CPU/GPU from 6th Gen (Skylake) or AMD Ryzen

vscodium - binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

ThoriumOS - ChromiumOS fork with Thorium Browser, x264/x265 codecs, Widevine, Kernel 5.15, Linux firmware/modules support, Nouveau, Intel microcode, and extra packages.

rubygems - Library packaging and distribution for Ruby.

redroid-doc - redroid (Remote-Android) is a multi-arch, GPU enabled, Android in Cloud solution. Track issues / docs here

fusuma-plugin-sendkey - Fusuma plugin that sending virtual keyboard events

Git - Git Source Code Mirror - This is a publish-only repository but pull requests can be turned into patches to the mailing list via GitGitGadget (https://gitgitgadget.github.io/). Please follow Documentation/SubmittingPatches procedure for any of your improvements.

linux_detect_tablet_mode - Detect if your laptop is in normal or tablet mode. Useful for Yoga laptops to disable keyboard/trackpoint/touchpad in a tablet mode

Fusuma - Multitouch gestures with libinput driver on Linux