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A location published articles are kept. This is simply done so progress can be tracked.
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- Article blueprints - Blueprints others may find helpful to speed up article creation.
- Contributor's Guide - A guide containing instructions on how to be most effective when helping out with the Wiki.
Main
- /etc/portage/categories
- /etc/portage/color.map
- /etc/portage/license groups
- /etc/portage/make.profile
- /etc/portage/modules
- /etc/portage/package.accept keywords
- /etc/portage/package.properties
- /etc/portage/package.unmask
- /etc/portage/profiles/package.provided
- /etc/portage/profiles/use.mask
- /etc/portage/repos.conf
- Acer Chromebook C720 — A short guide containing relevant instructions to get Gentoo running on a Acer C720.
- AQEMU - A graphical interface for QEMU and KVM emulators using Qt4.
- Aufs - Another union file system.
- Blue Yeti Pro - Instructions on getting a Blue Yeti Pro operational in Gentoo Linux.
- badblocks - A small program for stress testing block devices.
- Category:IDE - A category to bolster developer support in Gentoo.
- Build automation - Meta article on build automation software available in Gentoo. (Created redirect from Build systems.)
- Cgit - A fast web-interface for git repositories.
- Chrome - Chrome is Google's web browser.
- Chromium - The open source version of Google Chrome.
- Corsair Strafe RGB - Instructions on installation and configuration of this multi-color gaming keyboard in Gentoo.
- Cramfs — a memory and space sensitive filesystem that supports random reading.
- crossdev - Gentoo's cross-toolchain generator.
- Data compression - An article listing available data compression software in Gentoo Linux.
- Dcfldd - An enhanced dd tool with features for forensics and security.
- Desktop environment - An article listing of desktop environments available in Gentoo Linux.
- Detox - A utility that safely removes spaces and strange characters from filenames.
- Developer Handbook - Play ground instructions for new Gentoo Developers.
- Dos2unix - A small utility for converting text files created with Windows line endings to Unix.
- Duperemove - A tool for finding duplicated extents and submitting them for deduplication.
- e2fsprogs - Userspace utilities for ext2, ext3, and ext4 filesystems.
- Egencache - A software tool included with Portage that rebuilds metadata information for the Portage tree.
- F3 - Fight Flash Fraud, a cross platform H2testw clone.
- File managers - A meta article listing File managers available in Gentoo.
- Fonts - An article explaining how to think of and deal with fonts in Gentoo.
- Embedded article blueprint - Embedded article blueprint.
- exFAT - Extended File Allocation Table filesystem (created by Microsoft).
- ext - The first extended file system and one of the first filesystems to use the Linux Kernel's VFS API.
- ext2 - The second extended file system.
- ext3 - The third extended file system.
- FAT - And old filesystem created by Microsoft, but now has strong support in Linux.
- FFmpeg - A library for video related work.
- Firefox - A web browser from Mozilla.
- fdupes - A tool for identifying duplicate files.
- FUSE - Filesystem in Userspace.
- Gentoo developer side-projects - This article is to list various Gentoo developer side-projects. It will give others developers and users an overview of the breadth of knowledge present in the developer community.
- git-lfs — an open source plugin created by GitHub that enables the git version control system to better track binary blobs.
- GIMP/Plugins - An article that lists plugins for the GIMP.
- Hwinfo - A hardware information tool.
- Hyper-V - An article explaining how to run Gentoo has a guest on Hyper-V.
- I2P - Instructions for connecting to the Invisible Internet Project.
- Iotop - A tool to measure system I/O.
- iperf - A TCP, UDP, and SCTP network bandwidth measurement tool.
- IRC - Basic information about IRC in Gentoo.
- IRC/Guide - An in-depth guide on many things IRC related. Helpful for those who want to go deeper than the IRC article.
- Kernel Seeds - An article describing the use of kernel seeds.
- kpatch - User space tool for kernel live patching.
- Larry the cow - An article for Gentoo's mascot.
- Leafpad - An extremely simple, yet functional, GTK2 text editor.
- Lenovo Thinkpad W530 - An article containing some helpful details to know when installing Gentoo on this system.
- Let's Encrypt (Started draft) - The client interface to a free, automated, and open certificate authority.
- Linux firmware — contains binary blobs of firmware necessary for partial or full functionality of certain hardware devices on Linux systems.
- Live patching - Linux kernel Live patching meta article.
- lshw - A "Hardware Listener" utility for Linux.
- lspci - A PCI hardware detection tool.
- lsusb - A USB hardware detection tool.
- Magic SysRQ - Magic key combos for the Linux kernel
- Meta article blueprint - An article blueprint for creating meta (category summary) articles.
- Motherboards article blueprint - Motherboards article blueprint.
- Memtest86+ - A small program created to stress test RAM before the system boots.
- Mumble - A high quality voice over IP (VoIP) suite.
- Murmur - The server component to Mumble.
- Netifrc - Gentoo's network interface configuration scripts.
- nload - A super simple, command-line network interface monitoring tool.
- Obnam - A backup utility written in Python.
- OBS - Open Broadcaster Software.
- Overgrowth - An action adventure fighting game created by Wolfire Games.
- OverlayFS - An overlay filesystem with native Linux kernel support.
- pciutils - Userspace utilities for collecting information from the PCI bus.
- PCManFM - A light weight file manager.
- Pip - Python's package manager.
- PowerTOP - A utility to measure power usage.
- Project:Installer - stager - The perfect Gentoo installer.
- PyCharm Community Edition - A powerful open source Python integrated developer environment (IDE) created by JetBrains.
- Python - An interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language.
- portageq - A Portage information query tool (included with Portage).
- QtEmu - A graphical user interface for QEMU written in Qt4.
- Redshift - Automatic color temperature adjustment to help reduce monitor eye strain induced by working in low-light conditions.
- regenworld - A script distributed with Portage that will regenerate the system's world file.
- repoman - A program to enforce a minimal level of quality assurance in packages added to the Portage tree.
- Ryzen - A multi-threaded processor released in Q1, 2017 by AMD.
- Scan modem - Finds a suitable driver for a connected modem
- SCP - A secure copy utility.
- Security Handbook - A guide on common practices to harden Gentoo Linux.
- SFTP - A secure file transfer protocol utility.
- Software article blueprint - Software article blueprint.
- smbnetfs - A FUSE filesystem for SMB/CIFS shares.
- SparkleShare - A git-based collaboration and file sharing tool.
- SSHFS - A secure filesystem used to mount directories remotely.
- SquashFS - A compressed filesystem.
- Tahoe-LAFS - A distributed, redundant, least authority filesystem. (Actually created by Charles17 because my article was rotting in my userspace for too long. I merged my article's content with his).
- TestDisk - A filesystem recovery tool utility.
- Tkinter - Python's built-in GUI framework.
- Thunderbird - An e-mail client from Mozilla.
- Tmux/plugins - A list of plugins for tmux.
- Tmux/plugins/tmux-mem-cpu-load - A plugin for tmux.
- Udevil - An article describing how to use udevil, an automount utility.
- Ufed - A USE flag editor.
- usbutils - Userspace utilities for collecting information from the USB bus.
- uMurmur - A minimalistic Mumble server for embedded systems.
- unzip - Provides decompression for classic zip files.
- uptimed - A daemon that keeps records of system uptimes.
- User article blueprint - User page article blueprint.
- webapp-config - A Gentoo created tool for managing web applications.
- WeeChat - The IRC client that I use at home.
- WeeChat/Glowing Bear Guide - Instructions on setting up Glowing Bear, a HTML5 front end to WeeChat.
- Window manager - A meta article on software that facilitates the management of windows.
- Wgetpaste - A command-line pastebin tool.
- XMPP - An article about Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol software.
- Zip - Provides classic zip compression.