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01-22-2002, 10:00 PM
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Registered: Jan 2002
Location: UK
Distribution: SuSE
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Advice for a noob
Ok fellas heres the deal. I just installed SuSE 7.3, so I guess you could call me a LINUX virgin:P What software firewall do you recomend? Id prefer a GUI front end if possible cos Im new to Linux and am still coming to grips with the command line.
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01-23-2002, 08:57 AM
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Registered: Dec 2001
Distribution: redhat
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suse probably has a built-in fw tool. or, try fwbuilder (search sourceforge)
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01-23-2002, 09:43 AM
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Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
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i'd certainly recommend Firestarter, which uses a gtk (gnome, sort of) GUI
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