Updates , firewalls ?

[TotalNewb]

Ok its my second post today like i did told in other post
im total newb with lnux (just installed mandrake 9.2) and i dont know
almost anything about it.
So do i need to get some sercurity updates (like in windows, run windows update to get newest sercurity updates) and do i need some firewall
like in windows its must or else u get hacked in everyway ehh.. :\
and if i need some firewall can u recomend some progs? (easy to use for newb).
Ty very much for all info :).
and again sorry my poor english

[Radar]

Start here (http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/index.html) for some initial learning. Do all the reading you can.

To answer your questions, yes, you should update your system with new versions of your installed programs. And you will want to learn how to enable / configure the firewall (that should be) included in Mandrake.

READ READ READ and then DO - It's the best way to learn your way around

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Radar

READ READ READ and then DO - It's the best way to learn your way around

Very good advise.

Start with your distros own online documentation. You will also find that most distros install tutorials, guides, how-to's (most of the ones from www.tldp.org ), application documentation and of course the manpages (man <command>).

Have a look in

/usr/share/doc

especially

/usr/share/doc/packages

[JThundley]

lol, I was gonna say something mean about your English, but if it's your second language that's cool. Maybe you should go back into your user preferences and enter in your location. Other people and myself love to see where people are posting from :).

Also, read this: http://www.ethernal.org/computers/Linux/hacker-howto.html
just because I don't like the word hack being used that way.

[TotalNewb]

thanks for all replys :).
And now to read and learn -->
(got lots of reading and learning even before
i know basic's of linux ) :)

btw JThundley,
im from Finland :)

[JThundley]

Much better :) , thanks buddy.