Hey all, I wanted to highlight something that may be interesting to the community: the introduction of a new tool by Mageia's ManaTools team: ManaFirewall[1].
The ManaFirewall tool is a rewrite of the drakfirewall tool that has been part of the Mandriva/Mageia Control Center for decades. The old tool was written in Perl and used Shorewall, this new one is written in Python 3 and uses FirewallD. Additionally, since it uses the ManaTools application framework[2], it automatically has Qt5, GTK3, and ncurses based UIs through its usage of the libyui library[3] from the folks at SUSE along with Mageia's extensions[4]. This new tool was introduced in Mageia Linux 8, and I've brought it to Fedora Linux as well. As it requires FirewallD 0.9.0 or higher, I have built it for Fedora Linux 34 and Rawhide, and submitted it as an update for Fedora Linux 34[5]. The ManaFirewall tool is relatively new and the functionality isn't to the same level as firewall-config yet, but the long-term goal is to reach feature parity and provide a comfortable experience managing FirewallD regardless of environment (desktop or server). Most of the basic functionality is in place already, including managing ports and services across different zones. The UI mostly mimics firewall-config's behavior currently. This tool may be interesting to folks who need a lightweight frontend for FirewallD for desktops or servers. If anyone is interested in contributing to helping make this a reality, they are very welcome! The ManaTools team is available on the #manatools IRC channel on Freenode. [1]: https://github.com/manatools/manafirewall [2]: https://github.com/manatools/python-manatools [3]: https://github.com/libyui/libyui [4]: https://github.com/manatools/libyui-mga [5]: https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-9867a3782a -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure
