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LittleSnitch for Linux

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Re: LittleSnitch for Linux

#161
Congrats on the Linux port, this looks very nice.

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Re: LittleSnitch for Linux

#162
post #6

I remember before Little Snitch there was ZoneAlarm for Windows[0] (here is a good screenshot[1]). No clue if the current version of ZoneAlarm does anything like that (have not used it in 2 decades). I always found it weird that Linux never really had anything like it. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoneAlarm [1]: https://d2nwkt1g6n1fev.cloudfront.net/helpmax/wp-content/upl...

Completely forgot about ZoneAlarm. I remember using it in the early 2000s!

I read ZoneAlarm and it was like suddenly a part of my brain that went unvisited for 25 years lit up...

Re: LittleSnitch for Linux

#165
Tried it on Fedora 43 (6.19.11 x86_64) and it loaded all CPU cores, dumped 50K lines in the journal and failed to start.

> Error: the BPF_PROG_LOAD syscall returned Argument list too long (os error 7).

> littlesnitch.service: Consumed 3min 38.832s CPU time, 13.7G memory peak.

Re: LittleSnitch for Linux

#166
Honestly I think it is odd such a tool isnøt considered as standard to an OS as a process manager.

Anyway, this one looks great. I hope Linux distros will incorporate this or similar into the network widgets.

Re: LittleSnitch for Linux

#167
I know it sounds crazy at this point, but with popular YouTubers switching to Linux, gamers overall well-aware of Steam on Linux advantages and switching as well, plus popular software like LittleSnitch getting ported, 2026 can without irony be named as Year of Linux Desktop, right?

Re: LittleSnitch for Linux

#170
Back when I was still using macOS I loved Little Snitch and was a paying customer. And I agree nothing on Linux comes close. Would it be technically feasible to also provide this as a Flatpak to support immutable distros like Bazzite?
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