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cdist vs Synaptic

A side-by-side look at cdist and Synaptic. For an in-depth review of either product, follow the links below.

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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Synaptic

Synaptic

Os & Utilities

Synaptic is a graphical package management program for apt. It provides an easy-to-use interface for finding, installing, upgrading and removing software packages on Debian and Ubuntu Linux systems.

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