How to switch firewalls from FirewallD to UFW

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Aug 6, 2019

Here is a quick tutorial for how to migrate from FirewallD, the default firewall in Fedora and CentOS, to the Uncomplicated Firewall (UFW). UFW is the default firewall in Ubuntu and have more intuitive management commands that require less typing.

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