Firestarter (Chris Jones)

[Scott Kitterman]

On Monday, August 30, 2010 05:49:48 pm George Farris wrote:
> On Mon, 2010-08-30 at 14:20 -0700, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 09:22:40PM -0400, Greg Bair wrote:
> > > On 08/28/2010 08:35 PM, Robert Holtzman wrote:
> > > > I was under the impression that Firestarter was no longer being
> > > > maintained/developed. Wrong?
> > > 
> > > Lastest stable, 1.0.3, was released in 2005, so I don't think so.
> > 
> > See the section on Firestarter at
> > https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Firewall
> 
> I just read this so maybe Firestarter won't be needed after all.
> 
> http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2010/08/ubuntu-firewall-gui-for-ufw.html

That's not particularly news.  Gufw is available in all supported releases 
except Hardy (and it can be gotten from hardy-backports there).

Scott K