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MacOSvssamarium

Two self-hosted projects, compared on the numbers selfhost.directory tracks live: score, popularity, release cadence and setup effort.

MacOSsamarium
Score76/10042/100
Rank in category#2 of 15 in Virtualization#14 of 14 in ERP
GitHub stars21 690507
Stars, last 30 days+116—
Stable releases, 12 months180
Latest releasev3.12 · 21 Aug 2026—
SetupModerateModerate
Official Docker imageYesNo
LicenseMITMIT
Main languageShellBlade

Which one should you pick?

MacOS scores 76/100 against 42/100 for samarium, so it is the safer default.

MacOS ships more often: 18 stable releases in the past year, against 0 for samarium.

MacOS is growing faster right now (+116 stars in 30 days).

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