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Top 14 macos-catalina Open-Source Projects
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Retroactive
Retroactive only receives limited support. Run Aperture, iPhoto, and iTunes on macOS Sonoma, macOS Ventura, macOS Monterey, macOS Big Sur, and macOS Catalina. Xcode 11.7 on macOS Mojave. Final Cut Pro 7, Logic Pro 9, and iWork ’09 on macOS Mojave or macOS High Sierra.
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InfluxDB
Power Real-Time Data Analytics at Scale. Get real-time insights from all types of time series data with InfluxDB. Ingest, query, and analyze billions of data points in real-time with unbounded cardinality.
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WorkOS
The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.
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Dell-T3610-Hackintosh
Clover EFI folder and config.plist required for a Dell Precision T3610 hackintosh running macOS Catalina (tested up to 10.15.7) and Big Sur (tested with 11.4).
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MacOsInstallerToDiskImg
MacOsInstallerToDiskImg is a command line utility to transform the macOS installer you found on the app store in an Disk Image you can use to install a VM for example
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Dell-XPS-15-9550-Hackintosh-macOS-10.15-Catalina
This is one of my hobby/passion projects. I turned a $40 for parts and salvage Dell XPS 15 9550 laptop into a fully working dual boot Hackintosh computer running macOS Catalina, and Windows 10 Pro natively.
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No need to keep Mojave to run iTunes — iTunes can be run on newer macOS, by using Retroactive [1] to patch it.
Regarding running a newer macOS on older hardware, check out OCLP [1] — do make sure you make full backups and have a working recovery plan before trying anything with OCLP though. I know that might sound somewhat obvious to a lot of folk, but you'd be surprised at the amount of folk that jump in and try OCLP on their main system without any backup plan.
Note that are some gotchas re installing OCLP on some older h/w, and it will help to read up on possible issues before wading in. e.g. during installation it might be necessary to use a wired keyboard and mouse, via a USB hub, until the installation is done, you might also need a wired network connection during install, similarly. Depends on h/w (I've not patched MacBooks myself, yet). Once the patcher is done, these should not be needed anymore.
Official support for OCLP is only via Discord — but there is a very active unofficial peer/user support group on FB [3]
HTH!
[1] https://github.com/cormiertyshawn895/Retroactive
Not sure which macOS version you’re running but you can try your luck with Free Sidecar. It enables unsupported Macs and iPads to also use Sidecar. It’s worked for me in the past, problem was I was trying to enable support on an iPad Air 2 and Sidecar only works with an Apple Pencil (IPA2 does not support Pencil) so it did not work regardless. But it may be able to help your situation.
I had a hard drive, for data and an SSD with my windows install inside my machine, just thinking of trying it out, I thought of trying to installing it on the hard drive. A quick google search showed me an extremely well documented guide for hackintoshing thinkpad t440p, I was quite content, the instructions were clear and nice, installed macos big sur via the command prompt, pasted the efi file, modified some values and boom, in no time, I had an apple recovery booted up, clicked on diskpart and- what? the hard drive shows up, but it just doesn't format, every possible (but very limited) search result.... did nothing, "Hey! Maybe it's a big sur problem", after around 30 mins, I had a file with catalina! The formatting still didn't work. I was out of luck, so I thought...
Project mention: transform the macOS installer into a Disk Image that you can use to install a VM for example | /r/MacOS | 2023-11-10
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The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars.
The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or
since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
The latest post mention was on 2024-01-11.
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Index
What are some of the best open-source macos-catalina projects? This list will help you:
| Project | Stars | |
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| 1 | Retroactive | 2,073 |
| 2 | free-sidecar | 1,491 |
| 3 | Hackintosh-Intel-i9-10900k-Gigabyte-Z490-Vision-D | 677 |
| 4 | macinbox | 660 |
| 5 | nocturnal | 314 |
| 6 | XPS-9360-macOS | 181 |
| 7 | customise_macos | 125 |
| 8 | t440p-oc | 123 |
| 9 | Dell-E7250-Hackintosh | 66 |
| 10 | macosx-sdks | 64 |
| 11 | Dell-T3610-Hackintosh | 22 |
| 12 | XPS-13-9350-Big-Sur | 22 |
| 13 | MacOsInstallerToDiskImg | 12 |
| 14 | Dell-XPS-15-9550-Hackintosh-macOS-10.15-Catalina | 11 |
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