On Sun 23 Sep 2018 at 00:05:58 +0100, mick crane wrote: > On 2018-09-21 18:29, Subhadip Ghosh wrote: > Debian is a Universal OS. > > > > I wouldn't say whatever you said, doesn't make sense. I wish there > > were an easier way to know about it when I started using the OS, > > something to warn me that I need to configure the firewall to suit my > > needs. Maybe because I came from a different OS where the defaults > > were stricter, my expectations about the defaults were different. > > > > fell foul of this years ago. installed OS, naively went on IRC while looking > about at what was installed. > "oh, I seem to have ports open" > 20 seconds later somebody took over my account"
Tough. > Rapidly pulls cable and reinstalls. And never used IRC again. :) > Some sort of a warning during installation. > "there is no firewall running, You should probably set up some rules" > > would be helpful. The ordinary user's eyes would glaze over. The installation process is ok as it is. -- Brian.
