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DistroWatch: Debian GNU/Linux – Not Just Another Pretty Face (Part II)

[ Thanks to Ladislav
Bodnar
for this link. ]

“Since Part I of this tome was published, I’ve received much
feedback, most of it surprisingly flame-free. One good tip was from
a reader who pointed out that, besides Shorewall, there is another
excellent graphical firewall available for Woody. It’s called
Firewall Builder, and there is a deb package for it: fwbuilder
(also – fwbuilder-doc).

“I was raked over the coals for the “brute-force method” of
network configuration that I employed. I have a response to
that–see “Network Configuration Revisited” near the end of this
article.

“Several readers wanted to know how to find an individual
package among the thousands of packages that Debian has to offer.
That’s a very pertinent question, and a fine place to begin Part II
of this review…”

Complete
Story

Related Story:
DistroWatch:
Debian GNU/Linux – Not Just Another Pretty Face (Part I)
(Sep
04, 2003)

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