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Add-on package manager for macOS (and Linux if you need it)

is faster than before, especially when it comes to the update process. Automatic updates now run daily, rather than every five minutes as in version 3.6. While various Linux distros are supported – the basic [requirements] are a very modest kernel 3.2 or newer, and Glibc 2.13 or newer – the new version no longer officially supports WSL1.foundations

, Apple's offering is aimed at, well, Mac users, who tend to live in a graphical, point-and-click world. This can be disorienting to migrants from Linux: although the Mac's terminal environment inherits a lot of ostensibly-familiar tools from its roots in FreeBSD, they are often elderly versions, or are subtly different. Linux folks expect to just be able toThis is what Homebrew was designed to fix: install the Homebrew package, and then you can typeand you're off.

Homebrew was originally built for macOS, but the concept proved useful for Linux users, too. Either you may not have root access to the machine – or even if you do, that may only let you install ancient versions which aren't much help, but you can't readily update.

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