Red Carpet is a

package management system A package manager or package-management system is a collection of software tools that automates the process of installing, upgrading, configuring, and removing computer programs for a computer in a consistent manner. A package manager deals w ...

for

Linux kernel The Linux kernel is a free and open-source, monolithic, modular, multitasking, Unix-like operating system kernel. It was originally authored in 1991 by Linus Torvalds for his i386-based PC, and it was soon adopted as the kernel for the GNU ope ...

-based operating system that was developed as part of the

Ximian Ximian, Inc. (previously called Helix Code and originally named International Gnome Support) was an American company that developed, sold and supported application software for Linux and Unix based on the GNOME platform. It was founded by Miguel ...

desktop. Ximian and therefore Red Carpet is now owned by

Novell Novell, Inc. was an American software and services company headquartered in Provo, Utah, that existed from 1980 until 2014. Its most significant product was the multi-platform network operating system known as Novell NetWare. Under the lead ...

. Red Carpet supports most of the popular

Linux distribution A Linux distribution (often abbreviated as distro) is an operating system made from a software collection that includes the Linux kernel and, often, a package management system. Linux users usually obtain their operating system by downloading one ...

s and maintains their software installation through the

RPM Revolutions per minute (abbreviated rpm, RPM, rev/min, r/min, or with the notation min−1) is a unit of rotational speed or rotational frequency for rotating machines. Standards ISO 80000-3:2019 defines a unit of rotation as the dimensionl ...

package database. The name Red Carpet has officially disappeared and the software renamed to

ZENworks ZENworks, a suite of software products developed and maintained by Micro Focus International for computer systems management, aims to manage the entire product life cycle management, life cycle of server (computing), servers, of desktop compute ...

Linux Management, to match Novell's existing software distribution platform.

External links

Official ZENworks Linux Management product page
Linux package management-related software {{Install-software-stub he:שטיח אדום

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