[Discuss] Trying to connect to internet in Debian

[Kent Borg]

On 1/16/26 12:36 PM, Rich Pieri wrote:
> ufw comes from Ubuntu which is a *very* different beast. Ubuntu
> includes many potential remote exploits by default, so including a
> sanely configured, simple to manage firewall makes sense in the
> environments Ubuntu is intended to be used, which is non-technical
> users who don't know tech and don't care tech. You can include RHEL and
> Fedora, SLES and openSUSE in this as well: they all include many
> services in default installations, along with firewalls, where
> minimalist, do it yourself distros like Debian and Arch and Gentoo do
> not.

Wow.

I was an early convert to Ubuntu. ("Like Debian, but easier to 
install!"). But after a few years I started to not like their 
direction——and Debian got easier. I detoured through quite a few 
distributions mostly before Ubuntu, but for a long time I have been 
quite loyal to Debian.

You just gave a another big reason I hadn't known about.


-kb, the Kent who hopes Debian doesn't kill fringy key bits I depend on, 
such as X11 and MATE.