On Fri, 2011-02-18 at 20:25 -0600, Paul Boniol wrote: > I've been looking/trying different distros as a desktop Linux install > for a bit. There are things I like and dislike about all of them. I > thought I would ask what you are using these days. (I know, close to > inviting a flame war.) > > Also, I was brought up custom coding an ipchains script (which I > directly translated to iptables) to specify as exactly as possible > what source/destination/ports were allowed in and out, and deny all > other traffic. A lot of distros have pre-configured firewalls now. > iptables has a lot of advancements that would probably make things > shorter, but I haven't looked at the default firewall or changing my > script much because my old script still works fine and is very secure. > Are the default firewalls good (with customizations) or are they just > good enough effort until you can get a custom written firewall in > place? > > > My Distro History > Long ago when Red Hat offered free ISO's I started there, I moved to > Mandrake/Mandriva since it was similar but left it around 2007. So I > have a largely RPM background. Most recently, I have used OpenSUSE at > work and Ubuntu at home for desktop use. There are things I like and > don't like about all of them as a desktop. > > Debian - I tried it, very roughly around 2002. I had trouble > remembering how to use it's (text based) package management (and > getting out of trouble if I pressed the wrong key) so I went back to a > RPM distro. > > I left Mandriva when > a) I carefully set up SSH to be as secure as I could before turning it on > b) Mandriva shut down SSH because of a security policy > c) I changed the security policy to allow SSH > d) Mandriva changed the security policy back to shut down SSH > Now I see they made a patch release in December but only project > support through July for the free version, so I would have to upgrade > soon. > > OpenSUSE there is the philosophical issue of Novell / Microsoft. > > Ubuntu - I haven't used it much recently so it may have improved, but > I got very tired of having to put in my password every time I switched > administrative applications. > > Thanks, > Paul Boniol >
I am currently running Ubuntu 10.04 and Slackware 13.1. I have always liked Slackware but stopped using it because it would lead you into dependency hell every time you wanted to add a program. I am running the current version of Slackware in Virtual Box on my Ubuntu machine. I have to say that the newest version of Slack seems to have everything I would need already set up. I just wish the it used Gnome for the default desktop instead of KDE. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "NLUG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nlug-talk?hl=en
