firejail VS firewalld

Compare firejail vs firewalld and see what are their differences.

firejail

Linux namespaces and seccomp-bpf sandbox (by netblue30)

firewalld

Stateful zone based firewall daemon with D-Bus interface (by firewalld)
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firejail firewalld
139 6
5,442 816
- 3.3%
9.7 9.2
2 days ago 4 days ago
C Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 only GNU General Public License v3.0 only
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firejail

Posts with mentions or reviews of firejail. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-04-14.

firewalld

Posts with mentions or reviews of firewalld. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-02.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing firejail and firewalld you can also consider the following projects:

bubblewrap - Low-level unprivileged sandboxing tool used by Flatpak and similar projects

easywall - Web interface for easy use of the IPTables firewall on Linux systems written in Python3.

flatpak - Linux application sandboxing and distribution framework

hosts - 🔒 Consolidating and extending hosts files from several well-curated sources. Optionally pick extensions for porn, social media, and other categories.

bubblejail - Bubblewrap based sandboxing for desktop applications

geoipsets - Python package to generate country-specific IP network ranges consumable by both iptables/ipset and nftables.

Flatseal - Manage Flatpak permissions

collection_nftables - Ansible modules to manage NFTables via libnftables

yabai - A tiling window manager for macOS based on binary space partitioning

portmaster-packaging - Portmaster packages and installers

podman - Podman: A tool for managing OCI containers and pods.

lutris - Lutris desktop client