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evilsocket / opensnitch

OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.
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Douane app #93

Closed xavier83 closed 7 years ago

xavier83 commented 7 years ago

Hope this project isn't re-inventing Douane. If not any argument on why prefer this?

evilsocket commented 7 years ago

Hope this project isn't re-inventing Douane.

Why not? Diversity is a good thing.

any argument on why prefer this?

Not really, we're just having fun hacking code together and considering different approaches to the same problems Douane is facing.

tianon commented 7 years ago

I'm neither a contributor nor maintainer here (just someone interested in the project trying to follow the development), but figured maybe it'd be useful to drop a note as to why I'm interested in what's being built here and am not already using Douane.

When I evaluated Douane (admittedly a little while back), it was not easy to build/run (and packages were sparse), didn't have a lot of granularity (simply "Allow/Deny" vs the wealth of configurability Little Snitch for OSX offered), and required a custom kernel module.

xavier83 commented 7 years ago

@evilsocket I appreciate diversity of course and commend this project. Honestly I haven't even tried Douane but just heard of it, just wanted a comparison of sort on how opensnitch does better where Dounae falls short. And thanks @tianon

evilsocket commented 7 years ago

@xavier83 it's still to early to say that IMO, OpenSnitch is still in a prototype phase.

dreamcat4 commented 4 years ago

Hey the douane project author has fixed it's major crashing bug now. With the release v0.9.0 branch (which is not the default master branch ATM). There is recent activity on that project and it's worth checking again. And maybe trying if you want. It may still crash every few hours and freeze the whole PC.

The way to install it is remove the line douane from /etc/modules so that it's kernel module does not automatically load at startup. Then sudo modprobe douane when you want to load it.

Otherwise for OpenSnitch then Gustavo's fork is also currently active https://github.com/gustavo-iniguez-goya/opensnitch/releases