[ale] "New" laptop with Ubuntu

[villyard at comcast.net (Katherine Villyard)]

Thompson Freeman wrote:
> Most worrysome is a firewall. So far, I've been playing  
> around behing my firewalled router, so no big deal. While  
> I'd love to have a high dollar, hand crafted, optimized set  
> of rules for this thing, I'll settle for a configuration  
> tool which is cheap and quick, sort of like the default  
> system the Fedora installer runs up. Any opinions from the  
> Ubuntu enthusiasts here?
>   

I usually roll my own, but there are tools you can install to help you. 
This article might help:

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/06/26/1556259

Katherine