Red Hat have made another important announcement at this years Summit - RH Satellite has been made open source! At first I was excited, because:
- Red Hat customers can save hundreds of dollars as it's now free - you don't have to buy an RHAS licence for a RH Satellite (that is, unless you want support for it).
- You can run it on Fedora!
- Community users can add to the code and make it better. By this I mean they can (and will) fix bugs and add enhancements.
- This is beneficial for Red Hat as these improvements can (and will in due course) be loaded back into the paid RHAS Satellite packages.
BUT .... what you can't do with Spacewalk is update RHEL systems with it - you can only use it to manage Fedora and CentOS systems for now (according to the FAQ). So it's no use to me at the moment as we're a Red Hat shop only .... I guess I'll be waiting for my RHAS system after all.
