firewall doc question

[Matthew East]

Hi,

On Sat, Mar 8, 2008 at 6:24 PM, Adam Sommer <asommer70 at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Should it be re-written (I'll volunteer if so) to recommend the Ubuntu
> > UFW tool (https://launchpad.net/ufw/)?
>
> My thoughts are that it should.  I'm not sure if Firestarter is a GUI
> interface to iptables configuration, but at the moment UFW is cli only.  Not
> that the guide necessarily has to recommend a GUI application I guess.

Generally our approach is that where a GUI application exists, it
should be recommended above command line interfaces. From what Ryan
said, it doesn't seem to me that Firestarter is *that* limited for
most users. On that basis I think it should stay as it is. Having said
that, some input from an Ubuntu developer who is familiar with both
tools would probably be helpful.

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Matthew East
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