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+Bcfg2 - A Configuration Management System
+-----------------------------------------
+
+Bcfg2 (bee-config two) helps system administrators produce a
+consistent, reproducible, and verifiable description of their
+environment, and offers visualization and reporting tools to aid
+in day-to-day administrative tasks. It is the fifth generation of
+configuration management tools developed in the Mathematics and
+Computer Science Division of Argonne National Laboratory.
+
+* Homepage: http://bcfg2.org
+
+Bcfg2 is fairly portable. It has been successfully run on:
+
+* AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, Solaris
+* Many GNU/Linux distributions, including Arch Linux, Blag, CentOS,
+  Debian, Fedora, Gentoo, gNewSense, Mandriva, openSUSE, Red Hat/RHEL,
+  SuSE/SLES, Trisquel, and Ubuntu.
+
+Installation
+------------
+
+For details about the installation of Bcfg2 please refer to the
+following pages in the Bcfg2 online documentation:
+
+* Prerequisites: http://docs.bcfg2.org/installation/prerequisites.html
+* Download:      http://bcfg2.org/download/
+* Installation:  http://docs.bcfg2.org/installation/index.html
+
+Need help
+---------
+
+A lot of documentation is available in the Bcfg2 manual and the Bcfg2 wiki.
+
+* Documentation:   http://docs.bcfg2.org/
+* Wiki:            http://bcfg2.org/wiki/
+* FAQ:             http://bcfg2.org/wiki/FAQ
+* IRC:             #bcfg2 on chat.freenode.net
+* Mailing list:    https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/bcfg-dev
+
+Want to help
+-------------
+
+* Bug tracker:     http://bcfg2.org/report
+* Development:     http://docs.bcfg2.org/development/
+* Wiki:            http://bcfg2.org/wiki/Contribute
+
+
+Bcfg2 is licensed under a Simplified (2-clause) BSD license. For more
+details check LICENSE.