A free Linux adaptation of NETworkManager by BornToBeRoot
Details
- External ID
- 48338145
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- A free Linux adaptation of NETworkManager by BornToBeRoot
- Website domain
- github.com
- Launched
- May 30, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 26
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.778675282714055
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- linux network manager tool
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Porting or rebuilding a GUI network management utility for Linux involves wrapping standard Linux networking CLI tools (ip, nmcli, ping, nmap) in a modern desktop framework like Tauri, GTK, or Qt.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: NETworkManager (Windows), WiFi Radar, Linux NetworkManager daemon
Concerns raised: Python in GUI for network management reliability, Potential confusion with Linux NetworkManager daemon
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 1204 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #284 of 1205 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 211 days after the earliest competitor.
- zeptun · github · 2026-09-16 · 90 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Kudu · hn · 2026-08-26 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Oproxy · hn · 2026-06-07 · 70 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- stelliberty_android · github · 2026-09-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- netprobe-ir · github · 2026-09-12 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- dns-manager · github · 2026-09-18 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- kryvora-node · github · 2026-09-22 · 881 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Portview, A diagnostic-first port viewer for Linux (~930 KB, zero deps) · hn · 2026-02-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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