Is FWB really dead? Is there an alternative?

[Henry Law]

I only found FWB a couple of months ago; it's exactly what I want to simplify the firewall I have running in the small charity for which I am the volunteer IT manager. Now I find that FWB is dead; it was dead even when I first delighted in it! I'm not a "proper" developer so I think that doing anything about it myself is beyond me. But surely there's a need for this kind of tool? Is there an alternative?

[Ava Pxia]

I am not that well educated in the field, but have you seen UFW

[Tadd]

I too am sad to see Firewall Builder abandoned. :,-(
I loved this product and depended on it for many years. (UFW is no equivalent.)

Fortunately, it looks like FWBuilder lives on (as mentioned elsewhere here) on GitHub:
https://github.com/fwbuilder/fwbuilder
(or lacking that, here too: https://github.com/UNINETT/fwbuilder)

More good news: using the above, I was able to build/run FWB on CentOS 7 and successfully compile/install a new firewall! ...from an old *.fwb file that is.

Before going that far though, i.e. building it, my attempts to install any of the binary RPMs (like for EL6) failed. It's just as well though; having built it, I'm more confident of it actually working with 7.
To that end, I just posted in this other thread where a guy was trying to do that. See my additional findings there if you're curious.

The original "Compiling from source" instructions still apply and worked for RHEL7/CentOS7:
http://www.fwbuilder.org/4.0/docs/firewall_builder_installation.shtml#src

Don't be afraid! If you're already running a CentOS server, you can do the build without much additional knowledge or hassle.
Oh and the build will complain about no qmake -- get that first by: # yum install qt-devel
You'll also have to: # yum install libxml2-devel
and: # yum install libxslt-devel
Then it should compile (huge build) and run. Good luck!