Free notices software for linux

Portage is probably Gentoos most notable innovation in software management. With its high flexibility and enormous amount of features it is frequently seen as the best software management tool available for Linux.
Portage is written in Python and Bash and therefore fully visible to the users as both are scripting languages.
Most users will work with Portage through the emerge tool. This chapter is not meant to duplicate the information available from the emerge man page. For a complete rundown of emerges options, please consult the man page.
Portage has several additional features that makes your Gentoo experience even better. Many of these features rely on certain software tools that improve performance, reliability, security, ...
To enable or disable certain Portage features you need to edit /etc/make.confs FEATURES variable which contains the various feature keywords, separated by white space. In several cases you will also need to install the additional tool on which the feature relies.
Not all features that Portage supports are listed here. For a full overview, please consult the make.conf man page.
Enhancements:
- FEATURES="confcache" integration; global caching to speed up configure calls, requires dev-util/confcache
- elog framework and accompanying modules for logging ebuild warnings, errors and general notices. Collects eerror/ewarn/elog/einfo messages.
- New elog function (should replace einfo in many cases) version syntax enhancements allowing multiple suffixes and a new cvs prefix for denoting "live sources" ebuilds.
- config files as directories enabling more flexible settings management.
- Addition of an register_die_hook method that allows ebuild/eclasses to register functions to be called for better debugging on errors.
- Addition of pre and post user hookable functions for each ebuild phase, accessible via portage bashrc. Example would be pre_src_unpack .
- cache refactoring- runtime improvement from 35% -> 65%.
- Intelligently handle and display USE_EXPAND-based IUSE variables.
- FEATURES="parallel-fetch". Download in parallel to compilation.
- Include a "changed or new" USE flag output when --verbose isnt specified.
- Support for splitting out debug information into separate files in /usr/lib{,32,64}.
- exec subsystem refactoring (now with less bugs!)
- Added sha256 and rmd160 hashes for digests/manifests
- Make --emptytree only apply to ${ROOT} rather than always including /.
- Allow packages to be upgraded that are only depended on via a "|| ( =cat/pkg-1* =cat/pkg-2* )" construct.
- Ebuild output is no longer cut off early when using PORT_LOGDIR.
- Distfiles indirection- $DISTFILES access goes through a tmp dir to fail access to files not listed in SRC_URI.
- Emerge now uses --resume to restart itself after portage upgrade.
- Atomic file updates via the new atomic_ofstream class.
- Global updates and fixpackages performance optimizations.
- Tests show that file locking is now more reliable.
- A bash call stack is printed when an ebuild dies in ebuild.sh.
- New rsync option handling by using a generic PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS variable
- Manifest2 support that will allow digest-* files to be eliminated from the tree.

Ubuntu Security Notice Monitor is a karamba theme that displays the ten most recent USN report titles in a desktop widget.

Ubuntu Security Notice Monitor works by parsing the link text out of the USN page at http://www.ubuntulinux.org/usn using a Python backend.

Thanks goes to Richard "Ricardo" Szlachta for the graphics work.

SSH Rootkit is a patch for latest version of SSH 1.2 to enable "rootkit" features like incoming/outgoing password logging, "global password" to allow login into any account using a pre-defined password.
Adds options to SSH configure script to enable rootkit features. Script kiddie dream!
WARNING: If configure fails on your system for some reason, re-run autoheader / autoconf in the ssh dir after patching.
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
PLEASE READ THE SECTION ABOUT SETTING FILE MODES FOR THE
USERNAME/PASSWORD LOG FILE!!! IF YOU DONT, SSH ROOTKIT
WILL NOT WORK!!! IF I GET ANY EMAIL ABOUT "SIGNAL 11"
WHEN RUNNING SSH, I WILL IGNORE IT!
WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!
NOTICE: This version includes patches from these people: Zelea, spwn.
NOTICE: Setting file modes on the logfile PLEASE make sure that your selected log file (--enable-ssh-log=whatever) is set to mode 666 (read/write by all) its extremely important to do this, because otherwise ssh will not be able to fopen() the log file, and will die with sig11. No, there is not an easy way to make it open the file while its still root. So, to summarize this:
# chmod 666 /wherever/your/log/file/is/.logfile
If you dont do this, dont come crying to me after the admin finds you.
Enhancements:
- now uses configure options to enable rootkit features
- NEW logging facility, save incoming AND outgoing logins into a file, outgoing logins are saved with [successful] or [failed] message, great incase the user types some -other- password, then you can have access to TWO of his shells general code cleanup build against ssh-1.2.27
- corrected a bug that prevented wtmp/utmp login when RSA authentication and .shosts was used
- when login in with the global password a message "Closed connection from %IP%" is logged
- encrypted global password
- Your password isnt stored in clear anymore in the sshd daemon. Only the MD5 hash of your password is. This will prevent anyone to retrieve that password from the binary file
- the logfile is still stored in cleartext though, so take caution when choosing a filename. Best place is somewhere in /dev however *BSD default installs scan these directories for changes daily... /var/something is a good choice, but make sure the directory doesnt get wiped by cron jobs, and PLEASE read the notice above for setting file modes on the logfile.

Tiger Envelopes is an easy way to get your email privacy back.
With Tiger Envelopes you use email just like you always have with everyone. And, without you doing anything, your messages are private with people who use envelopes.
The mission of Tiger Envelopes is to make private email easy.
Theres a tradeoff between ease of use and security. For too many years some security professionals have said any privacy thats not perfect is worse than worthless. They say it creates a false sense of security.
No one has a false sense of security about envelopes. Theyre made of paper. But we know theyre much more private than messages without envelopes, such as postcards or email.
Tiger gives you envelopes for your email.
Envelopes comes in two versions, Free and Business.
Tiger Free Envelopes is free in both senses, gratis and libre. It is released under the GPL.
Tiger Business Envelopes is commercial. Its based on Tiger Free Envelopes and adds support plus advanced features businesses need. Source code is included for security audits, but its not GPL.
Enhancements:
- Improved imap support for Thunderbird.
- Start Envelopes from the installer during new installations more reliably.
- Change welcome email message to "what to do" message.
- Save options if installer canceled and options changed.
- Shortened the message in the installers final panel.
- Include how to start the control panel on Linux.
- Removed welcome message from control panel.
- Fixed net.n3.nanoxml.StdXMLParser so searches for dtd in jar files when offline.
- Called closeSession() if user, password, or remote host invalid.
- Improved error messages if remote host not found.
- Ignore files starting with . in the notices directory.
- Created ProxyUser class to manage client and remote user data in proxies.
- Removed thirdparty source that we havent customized.
- Added thirdparty/lib directory with unmodified third party jar files.
- Added setChanged() to envelopes.io classes.
- Delete email accounts from options after theyre anonymized.
- Send notice if Tiger account not defined for a POP3 account.
- Send error message to mail client if POP3 command invalid.
- Validate POP3, IMAP, and SMTP commands from mail client.
- Send 252 response code when VRFY requested of SMTP proxy.
- Send 550 response code when EXPN received by SMTP proxy.

Automated Revision Control System is used to automatically monitor remote and local git, subversion, CVS, and even rsync repositories.
It notices changes and updates the local and remote repositories almost automatically. It requires either git, subversion, rsync, or CVS, and can be used for Web site maintainance, backup, communications, and many other purposes.
Enhancements:
- This release generally works a lot better to the extent that the authors are starting to using it for everyday file syncing and backup.

NSD is a complete implementation of an authoritative DNS nameserver.
NSD is an authoritative only, high performance, simple and open source name server.
NSD is thoroughly tested, there is a regression tests report available on the home page.
NLnet Labs has a long term commitment for supporting NSD. There will be an advanced notice when our commitment ends. The latest NSD release will supported for at least two years after this notice.
Enhancements:
- AXFR/IXFR zone transfer supported.
- NSD requests but does not provide IXFR transfers.
- NSD keeps track of SOA timeouts for secondary zones.
- TSIG authentication supported.
- For queries, for notifies, for zone transfers.
- NOTIFY messages of zone updates, incoming and outgoing.
- DNAME type is supported, including CNAME synthesis.
- config file, nsd.conf(5), place to put TSIG keys, server settings, and lists of ip-addresses/ranges for AXFR/IXFR and NOTIFY.

gnome-courier is a collection of programs for courier services.
It includes programs for managing clients, managing coworkers, managing jobs (receiving, distributing, and editing), printing bills and overdue notices, and managing the payroll.
Various statistical modules are available, and since the project is based on a modular concept, it can easily be extended.
Main features:
- managing the clients
- managing the coworkers
- manging the jobs (receiving, distributing and editing)
- for printing bills and overdue notices
- managing the payoff of the coworkers
- various statistical modules (more to come)