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1. What is PIKT?
2. What Is PIKT Not?

• An acronym: Problem Informant/Killer Tool. (PIKT rhymes with "ticket".)
• An innovative new paradigm for administering heterogeneous networked workstations.
• A systems monitor that both reports and, wherever possible, fixes problems.
• A systems configuration and security manager.
• A cross-categorical toolkit with uses limited only by your imagination.
• An embedded scripting language and accompanying script interpreter.
• A sophisticated script and system configuration file preprocessor for use with the Pikt scripting language or any other scripting language of your choice.
• A cross-platform, centrally run script scheduler (like cron), customizing installer (like rdist), command shell enhancement, and total script and configuration file management facility.
• Distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL).
• Available now for GNU/Linux, AIX, FreeBSD, HP-UX, IRIX, OpenBSD, Solaris, and SunOS.

• A GUI-enhanced system. This is in the works, but as an option only.
• An all-purpose programming language. Pikt is tailored to systems administration, designed to work hand-in-hand with other languages, not to replace them.
• Available for Mac OS X and other Unix variants.. (These will come eventually.)
• Available for Windows NT. (Perhaps some day.)
• The last word in systems monitors. (But maybe it's farther back in the dictionary.)