[ale] "New" laptop with Ubuntu

[Thompson Freeman]

I want to offer a quick "Thank you" to the responders of my  
question. Excellent stuff, and I really appreciate your  
recommendations.

FWIW, except for the nominal lack of a simple, firewall  
setter upper/wizard, I'm finding Ubuntu to be a really nice  
desktop distribution. Lean, clean, and ready to get to work.

On 10/02/2006 11:22:17 AM, Steve Brown wrote:
> Thompson Freeman wrote:
>> Most worrysome is a firewall. So far, I've been playing
>> around behing my firewalled router, so no big deal. While
>> I'd love to have a high dollar, hand crafted, optimized  
>> set
>> of rules for this thing, I'll settle for a configuration
>> tool which is cheap and quick, sort of like the default
>> system the Fedora installer runs up. Any opinions from  
>> the
>> Ubuntu enthusiasts here?
> 
> I use firestarter, it's _very_ easy and is in the default  
> repos.
> 
> http://www.fs-security.com/docs/introduction.php
> 
> -Steve Brown

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