Ubuntu 8.04 ufw

Ubuntu 8.04 comes with a new firewall management tool called “ufw” (Uncomplicated Firewall). The official description for ufw is

ufw – program for managing a netfilter firewall.

type ufw to see the commands.

Commands:
enable            Enables the firewall
disable            Disables the firewall
default ARG            set default policy to ALLOW or DENY
logging ARG            set logging to ON or OFF
allow|deny RULE        allow or deny RULE
delete allow|deny RULE    delete the allow/deny RULE
status            show firewall status
version            display version information

Ubuntu 8.04 Xgl fix

Spent my entire Saturday afternoon upgrading my IBM Thinkpad T41 from Ubuntu 7.10 to 8.04. Spend roughly 5~6 hours on the entire process. No, I didn’t have any problem using the update manager nor was I on 56k modem. Actually the entire upgrade process was pretty fast and smooth that less than a hour to finish. So why did it take me 5~6 hours ?

My first reboot after the upgrade finished takes me to the new Ubuntu 8.04 login screen. I login and waited for it to load. It was so sluggish even as I browse through the top menu looking for new features. Web browsing on the latest Firefox 3 Beta 5 was extremely slow and not to mention scrolling down on a webpage.. it barely runs as Firefox would turn gray meaning the application is “not responding” I checked to see if my Hardware drivers (ATI X300) were installed and yes they are. No settings has been changed since upgrading from 7.10 to 8.04. I was beginning to regret upgrading.