Get your Local Web Development Environment Up & Running on macOS Sierra With Apples’ new macOS Sierra now in public beta, here is how to get the AMP stack up and running on the new macOS. This tutorial will go through the process on getting Apache, MySQL, PHP (or otherwise known as the ‘AMP’ stack) and phpMyAdmin running on the new mac OS Sierra. This tutorial sets up …
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System Requirements for macOS Sierra – Is yours good enough?
Apple have released a public beta of their new operating system named macOS Sierra. The name Sierra continues on with their California landmark theme, in this operating system the use of the term ‘OSX’ has now dropped the ‘X’ to ‘OS’. Disappointedly for some the new macOS will run on less machines than its predecessors including OSX 10.11 El Capitan. Apple has dropped support for …
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Make A Bootable USB Disk of macOS Sierra
This guide deals with how to make a bootable USB disk of macOS Sierra, see this guide for older operating systems OSX 10.11 El Capitan, 10.10 Yosemite or 10.9 Mavericks. This is possible via the Terminal App from a command Apple introduced since OSX Lion, called createinstallmedia, all you need is the original macOS Sierra app installer and a spare …
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Installing Homebrew on macOS Sierra, Package Manager for Linux Apps
The easiest way to install a number of Linux applications and open source software onto macOS Sierra is via a package manager, unfortunately macOS Sierra doesn’t come with one, but fortunately there are some good folks that care. They come in the form of Homebrew. Homebrew isn’t the only option, also available is MacPorts and Fink but Homebrew …
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