Questioning Pirut

[Terje Bless]

Erwin Rol <mailinglists at erwinrol.com> wrote:

>I always wondered when happened to red carpet

It's now a part of Novell's ZENworks Linux Management. See
<http://novell.com/products/zenworks/linuxmanagement/>.

According to our Novell rep, it also can be deployed on RHEL systems (as well as
SUSE) for a common centralized management platform.

Of course, as such it's in direct competition with the RHN product line from Red
Hat — and probably their main strategy for gaining market share — so I somehow
doubt we'll see any Red Hat initiatives to adopt it. Not that it can very easily
be repurposed to be independent of Novell's ZLM infrastructure — that I can see
anyway — so I suspect it'd be a poor fit for Fedora in any case.

-- 
  I'm [less] than thrilled by the [VM situation]; all sides of it. I [think]
  we need a [fork] in that area so that you guys would stop stepping on each
  others' toes.  I'm taking no part in your merry 5-way clusterfuck  -- sort
  that mess out between yourselves.                -- Alexander Viro on lkml