[Nottingham] complete beginner

[Mike]

On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 20:47, Terry Devlin wrote:
> To the experts
> I'm new to Linux and have it safely installed on my system for word 
> processing etc. My problem is using it for the internet. I would love to 
> use it so I can escape the blue wall of death but I struugle with having a 
> firewall installed. On windows I just install Zone Alarm but configuring a 
> firewall on Linux seems to involve having a separate machine or copying a 
> whole load of script into a programme. Am I missing out on something? Can 
> anyone recommend a good linux for idiots book?

As long s you are using a proper distro (ie Red Hat, SUSE or mandrake)
you may want to have a look at firestarter
http://firestarter.sourceforge.net/

This is designed to easy to setup (like I assume zonealarm is)