<h1>FAQ<aclass="headerlink"href="#faq"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
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<h2>Why Is It Called Ansible?<aclass="headerlink"href="#why-is-it-called-ansible"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>One of my favorite books is Orson Scott Card’s “Ender’s Game”. In the book, the Ansible is a method of instantaneous
long distance “hyperspace” communication with a large number of space ships. You should read it!</p>
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<h2>What inspired Ansible?<aclass="headerlink"href="#what-inspired-ansible"title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>Back when I worked for Red Hat and working on <aclass="reference external"href="http://cobbler.github.com/">Cobbler</a>, several of us identified a gap between