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 ## Introduction
 
+cdist is a usable configuration management system. It adheres to
+the KISS principle and is being used in small up to enterprise grade
+environments.
 cdist is an alternative to other configuration management systems like
 [cfengine](http://www.cfengine.org/),
 [bcfg2](http://trac.mcs.anl.gov/projects/bcfg2),