OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

[Claude Jones]

On Wednesday 11 May 2005 8:15 am, James Wilkinson wrote:
> Claude Jones wrote (about Ubuntu):
> > You guys got me curious, so I installed it today
> > One BIG caveat - it installs with no firewall, and there is no readily
>
> John Summerfied wrote:
> > What services were exposed to the world?
>
> None. That's why there's no default firewall.
>
> http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/firewall
>
aha - I'm learning

> The reasoning is that if you want to open a server to the world, you'd
> probably want to open a hole through the firewall, too.
>
> You might want to configure a firewall to only allow connections from
> specific IP addresses, but IIRC the Fedora standard firewall tool won't
> do that for you either...
>
> Setting up firestarter is very easy: apt-get it and run it.
>
actually, I did try this, but it didn't work - returned a could not find 
message - I probably missed a step somewhere, but I did try


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Claude Jones
Bluemont, VA, USA