On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 8:11 AM <mcatanzaro(a)gnome.org> wrote:
On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:14 AM, John Harris <johnmh(a)splentity.com> wrote:
Please consider the security aspect of this. This is a critical vulnerability. Please,
don't make us look like the Linux Mint folks. If Workstation is to be a viable
product, especially if it's going to be advertised prominently, as the primary
download for Fedora, this needs to be fixed.
Can you point to any other major (serious) desktop Linux distro that ships with a
restrictive firewall configuration?
The main competitor of Fedora Workstation is Ubuntu. Ubuntu ships without a firewall
enabled and nobody considers this a critical vulnerability. Now: why is that...?
The other major non-Linux operating systems do. Both Microsoft Windows
and Apple macOS ship with active firewalls by default. Those are the
real competitors, and they have a good UX for firewall handling so
that users can Do The Right Thing(TM).
FirewallD is a perfectly good firewall system, but we need a good
frontend with integration for it to work well for the Workstation
use-case.
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