Little Snitch for Linux

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If you use Little Snitch for macOS, the developer has now released it for Linux: https://obdev.at/blog/little-snitch-for-linux/. The download location is https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/download.html. To be up-front, I have not tested this out, as it is not open source. The reasoning from the developer being:

…is free to use but not open source. That part carries more than twenty years of Little Snitch experience, and the algorithms and concepts in it are something we’d like to keep closed for the time being.

I understand the reasoning behind it. I just wanted to post this for those already comfortable with it on macOS who also use Linux.

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I’m happily surprised it’s free and will stay free for Linux. Thank you for brining this to my attention.

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isn’t this closed source?

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From the download page:

Little Snitch for Linux has three components. The eBPF kernel program and the web UI are both released under the GNU General Public License version 2 and available on GitHub. The daemon (littlesnitch --daemon ) is proprietary, but free to use and redistribute.

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Not gonna say that opensnitch is simple and easy to use but it also works.

Like the author mentioned it in the link.

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Opensnitch is quitte a challenge to use. I hope littlesnitch makes this easier to use. Like OpenSnitch is nice but it lacks commonsense exceptions.

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I’m guessing it’s not at feature parity with Little Snitch on macOS?

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It is not similar to the MacOS version in UX. It is a bit more like RethinkDNS on Android, at least from the user’s perspective. There are no popups when there is a new network connection, basically you see a list of all connections within timeframe and can make rules like the MacOS version.

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Is this the best possible solution for Linux now?