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OS X Bootstraping

As a developer, sometimes we need to recover from a fresh installed OS X to previous development state.

Modern OS X system has three components:

  • kext--the kernel extension
  • CLI app
  • GUI app

So there is five things to recover.

  • kext
  • CLI app
  • CLI app config
  • GUI app
  • GUI app config

By utilizing Github as the content provider, here's my solution:

  • homebrew -- manage some of the kexts(NOT PERFECT)
  • homebrew -- manage CLI app
  • caskroom -- manage GUI app
  • dotfiles -- manage CLI app config
  • .osx folder of my dotfiles -- manage GUI app config through scripting

Note: caskroom is built into homebrew now. You can also use cakebrew as homebrew's GUI replacement.

Feel free to checkout out my dotfiles.

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