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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.