My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec

Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by Nextgrid on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:04AM (#22168249)

The problem is that a lot of the tools you need to run a Hackintosh may not be open-source or only provided in binary form (or you don't have a platform to compile the code even if it was open-source, so you'd still need to somehow bootstrap it first, either with a real Mac or with the untrusted binaries).

Running untrusted code from anonymous people on a forum, some of which runs at kernel level (like hardware drivers) is a no-no for me and should be for anyone.

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by hivacruz on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:14AM (#22168311)

Do you have an example of tool that is not open-source and mandatory for running a Hackintosh?

I followed the "vanilla" guide to build my Hackintosh. It uses only open-source kexts files available on Gitlab or Github.

Just avoid TonyMac and their apps.

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by nik736 on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:11AM (#22168286)

OpenCore is completely open source.

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by morid1n on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @06:14AM (#22168308)

And you can build everything on Windows or Linux. Mac not needed (though I still prefer it).

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Re:My 2020 Hackintosh Hardware Spec by nottorp on Tuesday January 28, 2020 @07:02AM (#22168574)

I move that PirateBay downloads can be a lot more secure than stuff from many commercial vendors.

In our case, the hackintosh community is highly technical and would notice any suspicious behaviour immediately.

Also, I think all the drivers are available on github? The TonyMac stuff is just a frontend that installs the same source available drivers...

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