firewall quesstions

[aerospace1028 at hotmail.com]

greetings,
I almost think something similar had been asked on this list a few months ago, but i could not dig it up in the archives.

First off, after a year of growing comfortable with ubuntu and orca on a test machine, I finally installed Ubuntu (8.04 "hardy herrin") onto my everyday machine.  

My test machine did not have internet access,  so there were still several asspecs of ubuntu I was unable to try.  In particular, I would like to implimment a firewall before I turn the internet on while using my new ubuntu system (FYI, the computer is set up to duel-boot from windows as well).  Doing some basic research I found out there are two options, firestarter and ufw.

1: is firestarter accessible with orca?

@: which is easier to learn for a novice?

I have no experience with network management, iftables or other advanced concepts.  In windows, I set my firewall to high/highest security and don't need to return to it often.  All I want is to allow my necessary activity ("apt-get update", reading my e-mail and googling instructions on how to get orca/ubuntu/etc to work well) and block almost everything else.

Thankyou:-)
and appologies for jumping in now.  I know most people are focused on the upcoming 9.04 release.
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