Free red hat software for linux

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Red Carpet is a software management tool for RPM-based Linux distros.

Red Carpet is a suite of applications that allows easy installation and update of software on Linux systems. Red Carpet project features both command-line and graphical GNOME interfaces.

These days Red Carpet is part of the Novell ZenWorks solution.

It takes care of setting up the ISO files, downloading the RPMs, configuring HTTP access and providing PXE/TFTP resources for remote network installations.
It was primarily intended for doing remote network installations of various distributions from a laptop without the need for CD media or floppies, but is equally suitable for an organisations centralized update server.
Doing a remote installation only requires a configured DHCP-server, the TFTP service and a Webserver configured with mrepo. Then boot your system using a PXE-enabled network card.
For updating your local systems, configure either Smart, Apt, Yum or up2date and point them to your local mrepo server.
Main features:
- Easy Yum-alike configuration
- Supports mirroring using FISH, FTP, HTTP, RSYNC, SFTP and RHN
- Supports Smart, Apt, Yum and up2date (as well as synaptic, yumgui and other derivatives)
- Can download and distribute updates from RHN channels
- Can work directly from ISO images (so you dont need extra diskspace to store ISOs or copy RPMs)
- Supports Red Hat, Fedora Core, Red Hat Enterprise (TaoLinux, CentOS) and Yellow Dog Linux out of the box
- Will probably work with other RPM based distributions (feedback needed, please mail me)
- Allows for remote network installation (using a PXE-enabled NIC on target systems)
- Support for 3rd party repositories and vendor packages
- Allows to maintain your own customized (corporate) repository
- Allow for chaining mrepo servers in large organisations with remote sites
- Can hardlink duplicate packages (to save precious diskspace)
Enhancements:
- The project was renamed from Yam to mrepo.
- Ready-to-use distribution configurations were improved.
- Proxy support was added to RHN support (rhnget).
- A new rhnget-cleanup directive allows the user to automatically clean up old packages.
- A Scientific Linux distribution configuration was added.
- Fixes were made to make RHN support work on CentOS.

Fedora Core is now available from Red Hat and at distinguished mirror sites near you, and is also available in the torrent.
Fedora Core has expanded in this release to four binary ISO images and four source ISO images, and is available for both x86-64 and i386 and also PPC machines.
The Fedora Project is a Red-Hat-sponsored and community-supported open source project. It is also a proving ground for new technology that may eventually make its way into Red Hat products. It is not a supported product of Red Hat, Inc.
The goal of The Fedora Project is to work with the Linux community to build a complete, general purpose operating system exclusively from free software. Development will be done in a public forum. The project will produce time-based releases of Fedora Core about 2-3 times a year with a public release schedule.
The Red Hat engineering team will continue to participate in the building of Fedora Core and will invite and encourage more outside participation than was possible in Red Hat Linux.
By using this more open process, we hope to provide an operating system that uses free software development practices and is more appealing to the open source community.
Main features:
- KDE 3.5.4
- GNOME 2.16
- OpenOffice 2.0.4
- Kernel 2.6.17
- Xen
- ...and many more

Current project is an open source implementation of a server to interact with the Up2date Agent shipped in Red Hat Linux.
Everything is implemented for a basic, anonymous only system. We are working to extend support for non-anonymous (fully managed) setups.
Main features:
- Production quality Up2date server for 2.7 to 4.4 clients with a Fedora Core 1, 2, 3, 4, or Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3, or 4 server.
- Full SQL database backend.
- Web Interface in the devel series.
- As easy to setup for the admin as we can make it.
Enhancements:
- This version fixes errors in the channel scan code path that was nonfunctional in 1.7.5.
- This also includes code to reconnect to MySQL databases when the connection times out.
- The database also collects a bit more meta information about each client, and that is displayed in the TG web interface.

Thresh is an application for Snort that manages alert thresholding and suppression. It was designed to assist the administrator with tuning one or more Snort sensors. The project was designed to run under Red Hat flavors of Linux.
It summarizes Snort Alerts by alert count, allows creation and editing of threshold.conf files, prunes your Snort database based on your tunings, and allows you to preview your alert suppressions before deletion.
Enhancements:
- DB queries were corrected.
- Database pruning based on suppression sets was added.
- A major code cleanup was undertaken.
- All errors with signature name queries were corrected along with all read/write calls to config files.
- The number of floating variables between POSTs on all pages was reduced. Descriptions were added to description boxes. Rule edit/delete options were added. Issues with alert counts were corrected.
- A cool way was devised to do CIDR block DELETEs and SELECTs in MySQL.

web-chpass utility allows users to change their account password through the web. This package was written with security and flexibility as the primary concerns--and in that order. It runs on systems that use PAM to manage user authorizations. At this time, it has been tested only on Red Hat 7.2.
The web pages produced are completely customizable. The chpass.cgi utility contains no HTML. Instead, web pages are produced from an external template.
"Bad password" checking can be optionally enabled. As distributed, the web page template offers the user a choice, with these checks enabled by default.
This package includes several components that may be useful for other applications. The nipasswd utility allows non-privileged programs to authenticate users and change passwords in a
Enhancements:
- This release fixes a bug with previously unexpected "Password changed" notices from PAM on SuSE 10.1.