Gufw - Simple GUI for ufw (Uncomplicated Firewall) in Ubuntu

[ Thanks to dave for this link. ]

"iptables is already a very powerful tool by itself, but it's syntax can get awkward at times and hard to figure out, so Ubuntu developers decided to make ufw ("The reason ufw was developed is that we wanted to create a server-level firewalling utility that was a little bit more for 'human beings'.")"

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