The more I have to use the firewall, the more I get scared because I find it very cryptic. I have been trying to enable vnc (see thread titled 'enabling vnc') and cannot do it unless the firewall is disabled. Becuase I am still new to Linux and can't get completely away from my GUI, I need something to help me. I am sure that there is a GUI firewall program out there, I just haven't found one yet. Is there one that is recommended over another?
I just tried KMyFirewall yesterday, got it off
http://rockerssoft.org/apt/fedora/2/en/i386/RPMS.rockerssoft/
The project's home page (screenshots :)) is: http://kmyfirewall.sourceforge.net/
Now, it's nowhere as easy as a very basic windows firewall, but it is a whole lot more powerful.
Note: I experienced some GUI bugs with it, which basically killed my KDE once or twice. So close your apps and save all important files before you play with it. :) It's not quite production quality yet, you know, but it looks promising.
Good luck,
//Andro
-- Andrey Andreev University of Helsinki Dept. of Computer Science
