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Re:HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for repro... by 0x006A on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:29PM (#10200683)
why is this using npm and not brew?
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Re:HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for repro... by mafintosh on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:37PM (#10200714)
this is not osx specific. its gonna be installable on other platforms as well (linux/osx/windows)
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Re:HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for repro... by duaneb on Thursday September 10, 2015 @06:57PM (#10201063)
Why does this use npm instead of a tarball?
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Re:HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for repro... by jimmcslim on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:47PM (#10200752)
They are hoping to support Hyper-V soon (open task).
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Re:HyperCore Linux: A tiny portable Linux designed for repro... by chkuendig on Thursday September 10, 2015 @05:35PM (#10200708)
yeah, I think im not alone prefering npm for (cross-platform) node packages and homebrew for (osx-specific) general-purpose utilities
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