Editing Red Hat Network (section)

{{Short description|Systems management service for Enterprise Linux}}
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'''Red Hat Network''' (abbreviated to '''RHN''') is a family of systems-management services operated by [[Red Hat]]. RHN makes updates, [[Patch (computing)|patch]]es, and [[computer bug|bug]] fixes of packages included within [[Red Hat Linux]] and [[Red Hat Enterprise Linux]] available to subscribers. Other available features include the deployment of custom content to, and the provisioning, configuration, reporting, monitoring of client systems.

Users of these [[operating system]]s can then invoke the [[up2date]] or [[Yellow Dog Updater Modified|yum]] program to download and install updates from RHN. The updates portion of RHN is akin to other types of automatic system maintenance tools such as [[Microsoft Update]] for [[Microsoft Windows]] operating systems. The system requires a subscription to allow access to updates.

On June 18, 2008, Red Hat [[CEO]] [[Jim Whitehurst]] announced plans for the RHN Satellite software to be open-sourced following the Fedora/RHEL model.<ref name="linuxworld-news-061808">[http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/061808-red-hat-network-to-be.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news Red Hat Network to be open-sourced] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080708102738/http://www.linuxworld.com/news/2008/061808-red-hat-network-to-be.html?fsrc=rss-linux-news |date=2008-07-08 }}, Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Service, 06.18.08. Retrieved from [[LinuxWorld.com]] on June 20, 2008</ref>
Subsequently, project [[Spacewalk (software)|Spacewalk]] was launched.