On Tuesday, August 27, 2019 5:10:28 AM MST mcatanzaro@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 11:14 AM, John Harris <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > > wrote: > > Please consider the security aspect of this. This is a critical > > vulnerability. > > Please, don't make us look like the Linux Mint folks. If Workstation > > is to be > > a viable product, especially if it's going to be advertised > > prominently, as > > the primary download for Fedora, this needs to be fixed. > > Can you point to any other major (serious) desktop Linux distro that > ships with a restrictive firewall configuration? > > The main competitor of Fedora Workstation is Ubuntu. Ubuntu ships > without a firewall enabled and nobody considers this a critical > vulnerability. Now: why is that...? If it is the case that Ubuntu doesn't ship with a firewall, which I cannot possibly imagine being the case, but don't have the time nor the inclination to check, that doesn't matter. That one distro does something ridiculous doesn't mean that we should. -- John M. Harris, Jr. <johnmh@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Splentity https://splentity.com/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
