Mark Twain once noted, "The time to begin writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time, you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is that you really want to say." Twain's observation is right on the mark (no pun intended), and his wisdom applies just as well to software. Invariably, the subtleties, nuances, and scope of the problem at hand become clear only after the application has been written. Between typing the first line of code and packaging a release, there are any number of false starts, dead ends, rewrites, refactorings, qua

You can download Istanbul from here. Debian and Fedora users should be able to install it from the repo. Istanbul has a very simple interface (or lack of). When you first start up Istanbul, you will see a small red button on your desktop panel.

s a text based firewall that works with  iptables.  UFW is designed to be an easier way to manage a firewall from the command line.  Whether this is easier than learning iptables or not, you can decide.  But UFW comes partially set up when you install Ubuntu.  Now it is not activated by default so you have not protection but some basic settings are in place when you do start up UFW.