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(R)?ex vs cdist

A side-by-side look at (R)?ex and cdist. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

(R)?ex

(R)?ex

Development

(R)?ex is a powerful text editor for Windows that combines an efficient code editor with an easy-to-use formatting word processor. It has customizable syntax highlighting and code folding, regex support, macros and plugins.

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cdist

cdist

System & Hardware

cdist is an open source configuration management tool written in Python. It allows system administrators to define the configuration of servers and deploy it to multiple machines in parallel. cdist works by running small scripts called 'manifests' on remote hosts.

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