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Kernel Extensions are gone -- regular users would never care about this sort of thing but you can't use products like Little Snitch properly on Big Sur and onwa
by s_dev 5y ago
Kernel Extensions are gone -- regular users would never care about this sort of thing but you can't use products like Little Snitch properly on Big Sur and onwards. Kexts were also used for making Hackintoshes -- again not something normal Apple users would care for. mac OS is simply becoming less versatile and more locked down.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoWell, Hackintosh users at least definitely don't care whether Apple is signing third party kexts, because they were never signing Hackintosh kexts anyway. The ability to load kexts in general is still used extensively by Apple and isn't going away any time soon. (Hackintosh's days are numbered anyway due to Apple Silicon.)
- watersb 5y ago?? Little Snitch works fine for me on macOS BS on my M1 MacBook Pro. Does it fail to work properly on Intel Macs? All of my x86 Macs are far too old to try Big Sur. EDIT: Oh, I see -- first-party Apple apps can stream unlimited data, tracking your activity. Egads... https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/ https://sneak.berlin/20210202/macos-11.2-network-privacy/
- robertoandred 5y agoKernel extensions going away doesn’t mean their functionality is going away.
- pjmlp 5y agoThey not gone, rather replaced by user space solutions, improving overall OS stability.