On Wed, 19.02.14 12:40, Bastien Nocera (bnocera@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Hi, > > I ended up calling the firewalld maintainer to understand the state of things > > and there is this concept in firewalld called zones that we should be able to > > use to create a better user experience, yet at the same time keep the > > firewall > > working when people connect with their laptop at an internet cafe for > > instance. > > Right. But firewalld can't a Fedora-only solution, otherwise no application developer > will want to integrate with it. > > We'd also need designs based around that, and see if firewalld is indeed the right > technical solution. > > Right now, we don't even know whether a firewall is required, or it's just a > work-around for applications that aren't integrated. I fully agree with Bastien here. I don't think a firewall brings any benefit on th desktop, and particularly not in the implementation of firewalld. There are better ways to make sure the local system is not vulnerable, and in its current state firewalld just creates problems and slows down the boot immensly (it's the number 1 slowest component on Fedora, right now.) Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat -- desktop mailing list desktop@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop
