On 1/16/26 12:36 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
ufw comes from Ubuntu which is a *very* different beast. Ubuntu
includes many potential remote exploits by default, so including a
sanely configured, simple to manage firewall makes sense in the
environments Ubuntu is intended to be used, which is non-technical
users who don't know tech and don't care tech. You can include RHEL and
Fedora, SLES and openSUSE in this as well: they all include many
services in default installations, along with firewalls, where
minimalist, do it yourself distros like Debian and Arch and Gentoo do
not.
Wow.
I was an early convert to Ubuntu. ("Like Debian, but easier to
install!"). But after a few years I started to not like their
direction——and Debian got easier. I detoured through quite a few
distributions mostly before Ubuntu, but for a long time I have been
quite loyal to Debian.
You just gave a another big reason I hadn't known about.
-kb, the Kent who hopes Debian doesn't kill fringy key bits I depend on,
such as X11 and MATE.
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