[HN Gopher] Show HN: Somo - a human friendly alternative to netstat
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       Show HN: Somo - a human friendly alternative to netstat
        
       Author : hollow64
       Score  : 70 points
       Date   : 2025-06-09 17:59 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | at0mic22 wrote:
       | Think it should be explicitly stated that it is not available on
       | Mac OS as procfs does not support it
        
         | Zekio wrote:
         | Readme only mentions linux, so why bother mentioning Mac OS?
        
           | cls59 wrote:
           | README also leads with a screenshot that has macOS window
           | styling. So, "works on Mac" is a reasonable first impression
           | to draw.
        
             | krunck wrote:
             | There are MacOS-like themes available. Eg:
             | https://www.gnome-look.org/p/1275087/
        
               | 293984j29384 wrote:
               | Nobody is questioning what themes are available on gnome.
               | Including a screenshot of the software running in a
               | window that very much looks like macOS X is simply
               | misleading.
        
             | qualeed wrote:
             | Before you get to that screenshot, you have to get past the
             | big, bold sentence that says _" A human-friendly
             | alternative to netstat for socket and port monitoring on
             | Linux."_.
        
             | Vilian wrote:
             | Linux is DEs support themes
        
           | at0mic22 wrote:
           | Cause it's obviously a Rust crate, you would kinda hope that
           | it might compile at MacOs. In 99% of cases that works.
        
             | diggan wrote:
             | If a Rust crate uses anything from the OS, and doesn't
             | mention that OS, I wouldn't expect it to work on that OS,
             | regardless if it's Windows, Linux or macOS. Just like
             | graphical crates state what APIs they support, and if Metal
             | is not mentioned for example, it is most likely not
             | supported.
        
               | at0mic22 wrote:
               | You wouldn't know unless running crate install.
               | 
               | I use lsof -i a lot on Mac, its not that I'm criticizing,
               | but mostly disappointed.
        
         | insane_dreamer wrote:
         | The title `A human-friendly alternative to netstat for socket
         | and port monitoring on Linux` is pretty clear.
        
           | at0mic22 wrote:
           | Nah, homebrew made apple guys believe they get pretty much
           | everything Linux has. Who would expect an exception?
        
       | mrweasel wrote:
       | Very nice. I constantly struggle to remember the correct
       | parameters to netstat and this seems to return the information
       | that I need in 90% of my use cases.
        
       | basemi wrote:
       | Please see also `ss`
       | 
       | https://linux.die.net/man/8/ss
        
         | bityard wrote:
         | I find the output of `ss` very hard to read in comparison to
         | netstat.
        
       | nubb wrote:
       | i've typed netstat -pna so many times in my life using something
       | else would totally ruin me
        
         | spapas82 wrote:
         | I use netstat -nap instead !
        
       | ale42 wrote:
       | Is there an option to disable the table mode (or at least
       | horizontal lines, don't care about the others)? It's a lot of
       | wasted space in the terminal if you have lots of connections
       | open.
        
         | rogeliodh wrote:
         | somo | grep -v -
         | 
         | :)
        
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