Red Hat - Utilities and Tools

Utilities and Tools

Over and above Red Hat's major products and acquisitions, Red Hat programmers have produced software programming-tools and utilities to supplement standard Unix and Linux software. Some of these Red Hat "products" have found their way from specifically Red Hat operating environments via open-source channels to a wider community. Such utilities include:

  • Disk Druid – for disk partitioning
  • rpm – for package management
  • sosreport – gathers system hardware and configuration details
  • systemtap – tracing tool for Linux kernels, developed with IBM, Hitachi, Oracle and Intel
  • NetworkManager

The Red Hat website lists the organization's major involvements in free and open-source software projects.

Community projects under the aegis of Red Hat include:

  • the Pulp application for software repository management.

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