If you're used to zone alarm you should get firestarter... it works with kde also. I'm using it for my personal home firewall and it is very simple and useful. You won't have problems with it.

Can I ask why you are using linux? if you want the "windows" feel to everything?
No flame intended.. just wanted to get your point of view.

J

For me, the windows interface means ease of use. I'm a newbie too and I'm spending some time learning, including command lines etc. But one can't learn everything right away. For some things it's easier to have the feel you're used to so you can concentrate on other basic things, which might seem more important at the moment, and delve into what's going on behind the scenes of some gui at a later time.
Another thing is that I don't won't to learn everything out there. Some things I'll do with just the least knowledge possible, just to get it working. I'm not interested in everything and a gui provides me with that easy/lazy solution I like for those things.

Hope this makes some sense.

For you maybe, but for someone who is still going through GUI dependancy withdrawls and has trouble memorizing basic port # rules or what THCP, UDP, DHCP and all those languages besides English, you might as well speak Aramaic . .

It all boils down to 2 major reasons

because my real name is Navan R. Johnson , I was born a poor black child from Alabama and we lived very frugally . . . we couldn't afford Microsoft textbooks in our underfunded segregated schools . . . so finding bargains on Linux programs and getting around paying whitie comes naturally

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079367/quotes


Oh and most importantly, because my girlfriend threatened to leave me for a man with a penguin tattooed to his dick if I didn't learn Linux.

don't everyone laugh at once

Thanks all
since I use to change to debian , everything looks clear to me , and I'm never going back to M$ Windoze anymore!! and I forgot the view of it too!!!!

I think I must go to learn how to work with iptables


Best regards
ArShAm