OT: What's the deal with Ubuntu?

[John Summerfied]

Claude Jones wrote:
> On Wed May 11 2005 3:55 am, John Summerfied wrote:
> 
>>Claude Jones wrote:
>>
>>>You guys got me curious, so I installed it today
>>>One BIG caveat - it installs with no firewall, and there is no readily
>>
>>What services were exposed to the world?
>>
> 
> there were no firewall rules at all except the default accept all three states 
> - so I assume all was exposed - I didn't spend more than a few hours on it, 
> and it didn't even occur to me to check this till well into the process... It 
> was kind of surprising to find it in that state after being up several hours 
> on the net

If there were no services listenin to your external interface, there was 
nothing to protect and so no exposure.

This is a matter I raised with them before Warty's release. _I_ think 
the response was something like if you enable them then you need to 
configure the firewall.

I also debated the absence of the ssh server by default; I administer 
almost everything remotely.



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