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After 15 years, the maintainer of Homebrew plans to make a living (thenextweb.com)
12 points by Corrado on July 27, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


I'm responsible for managing a small macOS fleet at $DAYJOB and I've struggled with installing software since day 1. I'm a developer and use Homebrew almost daily on my own machine and I love it, I just can't believe I never thought of using it to manage software on my fleet. I've been using the tools that the MDM provided, some of which are great and work well and some of which are just terrible. Usually, this involves me creating some number of custom Bash scripts just to install and configure the software. And how did I not know about the `brew bundle` command and "Brewfile" files?!?

This article is about Workbrew, a "professional" Homebrew, and I'm pretty excited about giving it a try. This could seriously save me tons of time and frustration. Have you ever tried to install and configure Carbonite on the CEO's computer? It's not fun. Hopefully Workbrew can make this easy. :fingers_crossed:




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