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Posted by: Anonymous Coward on July 01, 2006 12:56 AM
Ubuntu has no ports open on a default install. So unless you install something like ftp, ssh, or apache that listens to ports you probably won't need a firewall. However, on a windows box it has a bunch of ports open by default. That's where the operating systems differ.

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