[GNUz] Ubuntu, hackfest, SFD1

[Richard Tindall]

Jim Cheetham wrote:

> On Apr 23, 2005, at 1:35 PM, Richard Tindall wrote:
>
>> I'll give it a go then, & probably do the desktop as well. Once I 
>> have time to suss the firewalling (routing) side of things, I'll 
>> finally be ready to migrate off RedHat 9!
>
> The workstation message is pretty simple - don't run any services, 
> therefore you don't need to bother with a firewall. 

Except that.. when trying to be as home-network functional as on Windows 
(Internet connection sharing) one needs to enable iptables-masquerading. 
I found a script for this on RedHat, called "firewall-2.4"; have they 
just misnamed this for confusion, or should I believe them?

>> I hope the conference is going well over there. Just a matter of 
>> travel & show up?..
>
>
> Yep, it's open to the public, no charge, no booking. just turn up at 
> the Vibe Rushcutters hotel in Sydney and enjoy the meetings :-) 

Anything interesting yet? Like announcement of SFD sponsorship?

Hoary5.10 about to reboot into X..

Have fun,

Rik

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Richard Tindall
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