Author Topic: Little Snitch for Linux!  (Read 685 times)

rjzak

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Little Snitch for Linux!
« on: April 10, 2026, 10:00:56 pm »
The creators of Little Snitch, a common application-layer firewall for Mac OS, have created a Linux version which is partially open source: https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux, https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/download.html.

I have an email thread with one of the devs for PowerPC support, which seems positive!

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Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2026, 01:20:20 pm »
Interesting :)

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Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2026, 11:07:15 pm »
Isn't it the popular firewall for OSX? I fondly remember then it was quite good
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Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Reply #3 on: April 12, 2026, 05:15:22 pm »
I use it for OS X, and it is a fine product, but in reality it has limited usefulness due to the consolidation on cloud computing and the control of the Internet by Google.  It is not possible to limit connections to miscreant sites without blocking legitimate ones, if they share the same ip address(es) or blocks, as is common with cloud computing.  It is not possible to block Google without breaking some or all functionality of perhaps 90% of web sites, since so many sites rely on Google APIs for the creating of their sites.