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Application Servers / Daemons
CUPS Printing System
Handy Printing system.
Postfix Email
Postfix Email System is considered the replacement for Sendmail.
BIND 9.1.3rc1
Check out the release candidate for BIND 9.1.3! Not to be used for production environments, may cause network issues, blindless, abdominal pains, etc. - you know the drill.
IMP Web Email Frontend
Do you find that you 'pine' for web access to your email? Check out IMP!
Command Line
iBackup
ibackup lets you automate (with cron) the backup of system configurations. It is easy to extend, supports excluding files, upload and encryption of your backup.
Disk Management
Rsync
Check out Rsync, a fast incremental file transfer tool.
Misc. Tools
MultiTail
MultiTail lets you view one or multiple files like the original tail program. The difference is that it creates multiple windows on your console (with ncurses). It can also use colors while displaying the logfiles, for faster recognition of which lines are important and which are not. It supports regular expressions. It has interactive menus for editing given regular expressions and deleting and adding windows. One can also have windows with the output of shell scripts and other software.
Mini Unices
Check out these various Mini Unix distros. "I shall call it Mini-Unix..."
Programming
PhpNuke Easy Web Portal
PHPNuke is your one step solution for PHP web pages. So if you're looking to create your own slashdot or if you just need to get a web page up quickly, go no further!
Remote Control / Administration
Webmin - Web based administration tool
This web-based administrative interface is perfect for the Unix newbie!
Security Tools
CryptoHeaven for Java(tm)
Secure email and secure online file sharing and storage, secure document distribution and group collaboration.
SARA
SARA is a modern equivlent to SATAN. Sara stands for Security Auditors Research Assistant. Fully featured, and commonly used to check for basic, and some advanced holes, no security aduitor, nor paranoid sysadmin, should be without it.
Courtney
Courtney, is the arch-nemisis to SATAN and SARA. It will detech SATAN probes and attacks. Recieves input from tcpdump
IP Filter
Use IP Filter for your NAT or firewall services - or to set up an invisable proxy.

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