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Configuring the firewall by hand using iptables is quite difficult. When we still used RedHat 8.1 we have been doing it but now not anymore. We have been using yast2 now for firewall configuration. An alternative to yast2 is fwbuilder. We tried it once and it seems to work although the code it produces is quite large compared to manual configuration. An obvious advantage is that fwbuilder can be used together with many different types of firewalls and operating systems (e.g. also Mac OS X).

When you install Suse Linux, the installer offers you only three choices: minimal, KDE and Gnome. Everytime I do an install I end up manually selecting lots of packages (and I forget often many which I have to add later). Yast offers the possibility to save the package selection of a currently installed system. But how to I load such a selection file (*.sel) during installation? Apparently you can load it from the hard disk or the floppy disk. But the hard disk is usually formatted for a new install and many computers (especially portables) don't have floppy drives anymore.

My sister has sent me again an attachment which was encoded in the winmail.dat attachment. Sucks big time. Not only Linux users get pissed but also Macintosh users. Of course you can open it as long as you know how. On Mac OS X you need TNEF's Enough and on Linux you need tnef. Suse Linux 9.2 has an rpm that works well with KMail. Just click the winmail.dat and select "Open with tnef".