Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer?

Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by reedlaw on Monday May 19, 2014 @08:45PM (#7770680)

"Doing stuff" for developers often includes installing and running packages such as databases, programming languages, editors, etc. On OS X, there is only an App Store built-in. You have to choose one of many package managers[1]. Each package may get installed in its own non-standard way. Linux distributions like Debian or Arch have standardized package managers which handle dependencies and updates much more smoothly than any OS X implementation I've come across.

1. http://www.onthelambda.com/2013/10/14/the-state-of-package-m...

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Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by renaudg on Tuesday May 20, 2014 @09:00AM (#7772289)

You don't have to choose, nowadays you just use Homebrew for anything that might not be built-in.

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Re:Poll: What OS do you use on your primary computer? by matobago on Monday May 19, 2014 @09:48PM (#7770852)

Take a look of this http://brew.sh/

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