Firestarter is out of date

[Jim Campbell]

Hi Bodhi,

Thanks for letting us know about this. We can certainly make this change for
the 9.10 release. Would you mind filing a bug against this in launchpad,
just so the request doesn't get lost in the mailing list?  Here's a link to
the bug page: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ubuntu-docs

I would copy and paste the note myself, but just want to make sure you get
the wonderful karma points for the report. Thanks again,

Jim

On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 5:27 PM, Bodhi Zazen
<bodhi.zazen at montanalinux.org>wrote:

> Just looking at some of the documentation.
>
> Came across this page :
> https://help.ubuntu.com/9.04/keeping-safe/C/firewall.html
>
> I have a few concerns about this information.
>
> First the default firewall is iptables and I think we should point out
> firestarter and other tools are for configuration.
>
> Second, the default config tool is now ufw, gufw if you want a GUI config
> tool. Installing firestarter conflicts with ufw, so at a minimum ufw needs
> to be removed.
>
> Third, IMO, Firestarter is out dated. The project is not longer maintained
> and is showing it's age. I do not believe we should be advising firestarter,
> rather we should at least mention iptables and then follow through with
> information of ufw (for servers) and gufw (desktops).
>
> :)
>
> bodhi.zazen
>
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