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After a long time watching closely the evolution of Spacewalk (you know, the open source Redhat Satellite server), I decided to move on to its version 1.0. I have a working installation with more than 40 clients since version 0.2 and I followed all upgrades until version 0.8. At some time there I decided to wait for version 1.0 to move to a new server with adequate resources to handle the load. I must admit that I had a secret hope of not installing Oracle again. I proceeded to the ...

Today I decided to update my Spacewalk server to the latest version (0.8 on today's nightly build). In case you have never heard of Spacewalk before, "Spacewalk is an open source (GPLv2) Linux systems management solution. It is the upstream community project from which the Red Hat Network Satellite product is derived". Personally I use it as a central update server for all my CentOS server (more than 40 systems at the moment). I follow spacewalk since version 0.2, so one can easy understand ...