KDE Input/Output framework provides a single API for operating on files, whether local or on a remote server. Additionally, KIO Slaves provide support for individual protocols. Some particularly useful ones are http, ftp, sftp, smb, nfs, ssh (fish), man, tar and zip.

LuserNET is an NNTP based news reader for GNUstep. Although it's at an early version, it's already quite usable. The following features are available:

Plugins for nagios compatible monitoring systems like Naemon and Icinga.

This package allows a package to be started as non-root but still bind to low ports, without any changes to the application.

GeoIP is a C library that enables the user to find the country that any IP address or hostname originates from. It uses a file-based database.

Dovecot is a mail server whose major goals are security and extreme reliability. It tries very hard to handle all error conditions and verify that all data is valid, making it nearly impossible to crash. It supports mbox/Maildir and its own dbox/mdbox formats, and should also be pretty fast, extensible, and portable.