The other that needs *nix tools use homebrew with its wide offering of packages and libraries for any need. They do not care about *nix stuff, nor they will ever have to care. I think your use case is sort of niche, and does not apply to everyone in a big company: half of my colleagues do not need any tool other than standard productivity (office or what it is called now) and company provided apps for communications and sharing. Distro maintainers build them, apply distro-specific localization, test them, verify the versions & dependencies work together, back port security updates, etc. My experience on macos is limited, so please do correct me if I’m wrong, but my impression is that linux distros (redhat/ubuntu/etc) are significantly more involved in providing comprehensive software support across a wide range of popular software packages than apple is. Say I needed to install nginx & openssl & mysql & php & fpm & gd & exim (for example), you’d either have to compile these from source, download the binaries from the website, or use a 3rd party repository like homebrew, no? Why risk it?Īpple might not be a champion of open communication, but it surely makes it very easy to have fleet of devices all updated to latest version of software.Īs far as I’m aware apple doesn’t maintain or even provide most of the enterprise “unix” software that many users & developers need. Obviously there’s an exception for security patches, but for critical systems it’s not usually worth the risk to run cutting edge software. I’m not trying to be facetious, but sticking to mature “old” code is actually quite intentional in the enterprise world. Linux is another story: all servers run quite old versions of linux and we pay good money to have security updates. IMHO there’s no reason to rush updates unless the clock is running on security fixes. My company uses mostly Apple MacBook Pro as employee laptop’s and thanks to an internal beta testing, MacOS Ventura was available as an option to install on the day of the launch, with full support of all business critical applications.
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