Linux is Linux, For my firewall I have used RedHat, now I am using Mandrake, probably move to another distro later on. As for the firewall you only have one free option, iptables that comes standard in the kernel.
There are a few guis that will help in building a firewall, also there are a few tutorials that will help you understand how iptables work > I have an old PII 200Mhz pc I would like to load linux on it and make it a > firewall > I was wondering what linux could I use and what firewall software could I > use. > > Thanks in advance > Merry Christmas everyone > > Gaza > > > -- > SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ > More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug > -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug