Apple

Software

Package management

• https://www.macports.org/

• Homebrew - The missing package manager for OS X

• Homebrew Cask extends Homebrew and brings its elegance, simplicity, and speed to OS X applications and large binaries alike. It only takes 1 line in your shell to reach 3059 Casks maintained by 424 contributors.

• Cider is a simple wrapper for Homebrew and Homebrew Cask that allows you to save your setup across different machines. This lets you to restore a backup without having to deal with the mess that was the state of your previous installation, or painstakingly babysit the process step-by-step. [1]

• http://www.getmacapps.com/

• Rudix is a collection of pre-built Unix software delivered as packages for OS X.

Window managers

• https://www.spectacleapp.com/

• https://github.com/koekeishiya/kwm

• http://manytricks.com/moom/

• https://github.com/ianyh/Amethyst

• https://github.com/jigish/slate

• https://github.com/kasper/phoenix

Linux

• LWN: Linux on the Mac — state of the union - [2]

• Darling - a translation layer that allows you to run unmodified macOS binaries on Linux. In its nature, it is similar to the well-known Wine project. At this point, does not yet run macOS application with a GUI. For more information, review the Project Status. Developers are always welcome to join the project.

• http://mac-on-linux.sourceforge.net [3]

• https://github.com/AndrewDryga/vagrant-box-osx

• https://wiki.qemu.org/Documentation/Platforms/PowerPC

• PearPC - an architecture-independent PowerPC platform emulator capable of running most PowerPC operating systems.
  • https://github.com/sebastianbiallas/pearpc
  • WP: PearPC

to sort

• http://sheepshaver.cebix.net/

• http://boxen.github.com/
  • https://github.com/boxen

• http://folklore.org/

• https://github.com/jipegit/OSXAuditor [4]

• https://github.com/Yelp/osxcollector

• http://saveosx.org/a-warm-welcome/

• https://github.com/CocoaPods/CocoaPods [5]

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8768022

• https://www.apple.com/start-something-new/ [6]