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@@ -1,7 +1,48 @@ -Bcfg2 is a configuration management system. It helps system -administrators deploy complex changes across large numbers of systems -in a coherent and transparent fashion. +Bcfg2 - A Configuration Management System +----------------------------------------- -Much documentation is available on the Bcfg2 web site, at: -http://bcfg2.org +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://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2 + +Bcfg2 is fairly portable. It has been successfully run on: + +* AIX, FreeBSD, OpenBSD Mac OS X, OpenSolaris, Solaris +* Many GNU/Linux distributions, including ArchLinux, 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 wiki. + +* Prerequisites: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/Prereqs +* Download: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/Download +* Installation: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/Install + +Need help +--------- + +* FAQ: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/FAQ +* IRC: #bcfg2 on chat.freenode.net +* Mailing list: https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/bcfg-dev +* Bug tracker: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/report + +Documentation +------------- + +A lot of documentation is available in the Bcfg2 wiki and the Bcfg2 +manual. + +Wiki: http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2/wiki/ +Manual: http://doc.bcfg2.fourkitchens.com/ + + +Bcfg2 is licensed under BSD, for more details check COPYING. |