Claude Jones wrote (about Ubuntu): > You guys got me curious, so I installed it today > One BIG caveat - it installs with no firewall, and there is no readily John Summerfied wrote: > What services were exposed to the world? None. That's why there's no default firewall. http://www.ubuntulinux.org/support/documentation/faq/firewall The reasoning is that if you want to open a server to the world, you'd probably want to open a hole through the firewall, too. You might want to configure a firewall to only allow connections from specific IP addresses, but IIRC the Fedora standard firewall tool won't do that for you either... Setting up firestarter is very easy: apt-get it and run it. Not sure if anyone here's commented on the AMD-64 experience. Both Fedora and Ubuntu are very good on AMD-64. But they have weaknesses in their x86 support. On Fedora, if you parallel-install AMD-64 and x86 RPMs, then just remove the x86 one, in my experience RPM will remove the shared files too, which it probably shouldn't. (Which can be a problem if you decide to nuke x86 support and remove the glibc x86-arch RPMs: it breaks language support...) Ubuntu, while they get multi-arch running the way they want it to, are limited to an ia32-libs package that adds basic x86 support, a 32-bit OpenOffice (since 64 bit doesn't yet work anywhere), a few other things, and support for a 32-bit only chroot install. It's more work, but possibly less likely to break. I get the impression that x86-64 Hoary, the latest Ubuntu, is slightly buggier (especially in its hardware support) than x86-64 Fedora. James. -- E-mail address: james | "Today Has Been Two Of Those Days." @westexe.demon.co.uk | -- Mike Andrews
