Re: Firestarter VS Shorewall

[Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com>]

On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 19:50:17 -0500
hendrik@topoi.pooq.com wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 11:19:02PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> > 
> > 70MB is *huge* amount of data to install *only* to have a gui. IMHO
> > firestarter is only useful if you already have X installed, though
> > this is a bad idea on a server.
> 
> You could run X on another system.  People tend to forget that X is a 
> networked protocol.

But you still need parts of X installed on the server, err, client in X
speak.

Regards,
Andrei
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