After 15 years, the maintainer of Homebrew plans to make a living

Get the Full StoryInstalling and updating applications and other dependencies on a computer really should be a solved problem by now. Yet almost every major desktop operating system provides multiple options, with no real clear answer to which is best. Linux, despite long-established package managers such as apt, deb, and rpm, just to name a few, still suffers from confusion and inconsistency between open source vs proprietary instals, as well as between developer tools and more user-focussed tools. Additionally, many package developers don t even distribute to any package managers, or the versions you find in them are outdated. Windows isn t much better, with This story continues at The Next Web

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