Powerman: Software I use & recommend

Software I use & recommend

Here list of my 'software alternatives' decisions which makes my Gentoo installations more secure and reliable:

hardened-sources: I use Gentoo Hardened, this include patched kernel sources and toolchain.
runit: Runit is improved version of DJB's daemontools. It make system boot/shutdown, restarting services and log rotation really reliable.
socklog: Socklog replaces usual syslog and klog by simple and reliable alternative.
djbdns: Djbdns is reliable and secure alternative for bind.
qmail: Qmail is reliable and secure alternative for sendmail. Probably postfix is also acceptable alternative, but I've no experience with it.
qmail-pop3sd: qmail-pop3d used with sslserver (from ucspi-ssl) turn into secure POP3 service (Maildir only).
3proxy: 3proxy is good alternative for bloated squid.
twoftpd: twoftpd is simple, secure and efficient FTP server.
dcron: Dcron is simple and secure cron daemon.
mc-mp: mc-mp is a fork of older mc-4.1.x with a lot bugs fixed, so it's much more reliable than current mc-4.6.x.
fastcgi: FastCGI (in external server mode) is much more portable, secure and manageable way to efficiently run CGI/PHP scripts - unlike SuExec, mod_perl and mod_php.
asciidoc: AsciiDoc simple yet powerful documentation system.