Today we’re going to look at the little tools in KDE4, or at least some of them. There are far too many to be able to cover in one blog entry, and so I’ve decided to cover a few of the ones that I personally use and which have had visible improvements over their KDE3 counterparts.

A great view of the tools of KDE4 and how they have changed and improved and over all looking good, check this out if you want to see how things have changed in KDE4 it’s not your parents KDE anymore, Baldy

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Introduction
One of the great features included in Linux is the IPtables firewall. Unfortunately, its command-line use is rather complex, and it can be intimidating for even experienced Linux users to configure it. Firestarter is a friendly graphical interface that allows you to configure a software firewall in Linux using the built-in IPtables/IPchains utilities.

Installation
Installing Firestarter is simple; it’s contained in most distribution’s repositories. In Ubuntu and Debian-based distributions, Firestarter can be installed by running:
sudo apt-get install firestarter
from the command line. This will install Firestarter and all necessary dependencies.

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