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This page is a work in process by Gentoo wiki contributors. Anyone is welcome to help by creating articles (listed below) that do not exist on our Wiki. Join #gentoo-wiki if you have any questions!
Please list topics that you think the Gentoo Wiki should cover. See also the Stub category index page for articles that need expansion. Many requests listed here are works in progress. Feel free to add new pages or to improve pages that are linked here. There is still much to do!
Gentoo development
Portage Development- Done!
Developer Handbook- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
Project and community
How to contribute to Gentoo- Done! ( Ben de Groot (Yngwin) )- Introduction to Gentoo Linux (perhaps to replace Benefits of Gentoo) - a more "neutral" description of differences between Gentoo and other distros is needed; not simply a "pro/con" style tit-for-tat, since what's a "pro" to one user may be a "con" for others. - In Process... ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
Core system
Base system
- musl - How to replace glibc with musl. See https://www.musl-libc.org/
- uClibc - How to replace glibc with uClibc. See https://www.uclibc.org/
Installation
Quick Install Guide to parallel the Quick Install Guide- Done! (Defer ) The install guide has been updated to handle both x86 and AMD64 systems.- Multi-boot - A guide on how to boot multiple operating systems?
Kernel/Configuration: Kernel configuration walk through- Done! ( Arne Stäcker (Astaecker) )Examples on how to use Kernel seeds- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
- LiveDVD - we have LiveUSB and, say, Project:RelEng/LiveDVD (and even LiveDVD-Persistence-Mode!), but no dedicated article for the LiveDVD(s).
System tools and daemons
- daemontools -
- sysklogd -
syslog-ng- Done!s6- Done! (Tclover )
Gentoo-specific tools
egencache- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )elogv- Done! ( Joshua Rutkowski (Jrtk) )epkginfo- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )portageq- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )qcheck- Done! ( Joshua Rutkowski (Jrtk) )savedconfig-Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )ufed- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
Virtualization, containers, chroots, etc.
- Chroot Guide (to test self-written ebuilds) - In progress... ( Matthew Marchese (maffblaster) )
- Profile switching (Arch/Subarch, multilib,...) -
Docker- Done! (Sasf54 and Nemunaire )- See Project:Docker for the official Gentoo project.
Provisioning tools
- Cobbler -
Configuration management tools
- Ansible - Started by Jirutka . Finished by ?
- CFEngine -
- Chef -
Puppet- Done! ( Alex Legler (a3li) )- Salt -
Software
Data compression
- bzip2 -
- gzip -
tar- Done! ( Christopher Díaz Riveros (ChrisADR) )unzip- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )- xz -
zip- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )- zpaq - in progress (User:Ng0/drafts/zpaq ng0 )
Shell and terminal console
shellinabox- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (maffblaster) )- Busybox -
- getty -
- kmscon -
st- Done! (Hariskar )
Graphical
IRC/Chat clients
IRC- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )IRC/Guide- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
WeeChat- Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )- Konversation -
- Quassel -
Pidgin- Done! ( Christopher Díaz Riveros (ChrisADR) )HexChat- In progress. ( Joshua Rutkowski (Jrtk) )
Hardware
- Apcupsd: an application for interacting with APC uninterruptible power supplies -
Network
Network interface- Done!
Desktop
Keyboard layout switching- Done! (Nfk )A list of desktop environments- Done! (Reisio , Matthew Marchese (maffblaster) )
Server and security
Continuous integration
Static website engines
XMPP servers
Network services
- bird -
- beowulf cluster -
chrony- Done! Brian Evans (Grknight)- dhcpd -
- udhcpc -
- dhclient -
- etherape -
- firehol -
- firewalld -
- fwbuilder -
- guacamole -
- italc -
metasploit- Done! ( Christopher Díaz Riveros (ChrisADR) )- nufw -
- phpbb mods > solved & recaptcha
- pepperspot -
- pump -
- rdesktop with grdesktop section
- sanewall -
- shorewall -
- trac -
- ufw-frontends -
- zeroconf -
Complete list
- Special:WantedPages - Complete list generated by the wiki itself.