guarddog or firestarter for linux mint 4.0 daryna ?
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guarddog or firestarter for linux mint 4.0 daryna ?
hi linux mint forum,
may I use the guarddog firewall for linux mint 4.0 daryna? I know the guarddog firewall is a kde software. which firewall for beginner is the most recommended to by using linux mint 4.0 daryna gnome edition? because I am used to use guarddog for a long while when I used another distro with kde. I don't like firerstarter very much and I don't fit well with it. Is there any conflict with linux mint 4.0 daryna with it? I'd appreciate your useful hints.god bless you! best regards.
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Re: guarddog or firestarter for linux mint 4.0 daryna ?
It doesn't really matter, both are just configuration tools for iptables, neither are a firewall....
Softpedia.com wrote:Guarddog is a firewall configuration utility for Linux systems
Iptables are installed per default on most distros, these utilities just make configuring them a bit easier (though the terminal could give you a better setup if you want to go through it)Softpedia.com wrote:Firestarter is a firewall tool for Linux, and uses GNOME. You can use the wizard to create a basic firewall, then streamline it further using the dynamic rules.
Re: guarddog or firestarter for linux mint 4.0 daryna ?
kuruka,
I believe you said your were familiar with and liked Guarddog. And your question was can you use it on Mint 4 daryna.
The answer to your question is, yes you can. Install it from synaptic. It will probably pull in some other stuff, (dependencies), along with it but that shouldn't be a problem.
Like MagnusB said, neither Guarddog nor Firestarter are firewalls. They are just configuration utility GUI's. The firewall is already there, it is iptables.
Fred
I believe you said your were familiar with and liked Guarddog. And your question was can you use it on Mint 4 daryna.
The answer to your question is, yes you can. Install it from synaptic. It will probably pull in some other stuff, (dependencies), along with it but that shouldn't be a problem.
Like MagnusB said, neither Guarddog nor Firestarter are firewalls. They are just configuration utility GUI's. The firewall is already there, it is iptables.
Fred
Re: guarddog or firestarter for linux mint 4.0 daryna ?
I just did a
(like aptitude over apt-get, gives better control over dependencies) and saw that Guard Dog needs:
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sudo aptitude install guarddog
Would use 60 MB more space when unpacked, while Firestarter needs only needs 1 package (firestarter_1.0.3-6ubuntu1_i386.deb). If you use GNOME I recommend Firestarter, KDE Guard Dog, both are pretty easy to configure anyway. I did not think about this earlier, but there is the difference: Firestarter is a GNOME app, Guard Dog is a KDE app...gawk kdelibs-data kdelibs4c2a libakode2 libarts1-akode libarts1c2a
libavahi-qt3-1 liblua50 liblualib50 libopenexr2c2a libsamplerate0
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