Gentoo Wiki:Requested Articles

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Gentoo Development

• Basic guide to write Gentoo Ebuilds
• Portage Development

Core system

Installation

• AMD64 Quick Install Guide to parallel the x86 quick install guide
• BTRFS
• Filesystem
• SSD: How to install and configure (partition layout (4k barrier), fstab options, noop scheduler, etc.) a Gentoo installation on a SSD drive (ext4 and Btrfs).
• Multi-boot
• Kernel/Configuration/x86/3.5 Kernel/Configuration/amd64/3.5: Kernel configuration "walkthrough" Kernel Seeds

Gentoo-specific tools

• egencache
• epkginfo
• eselect
• ufed
• savedconfig
• portageq

Virtualization, containers, chroots

• Chroot to test self-written ebuilds — Chroots, x86 chroot, AMD64 - 32bit chroot, maybe use Schroot
• Profile switching Switching profiles (Arch/Subarch, multilib,...)

Software

Shell and terminal console

• Busybox
• Dash

Graphical

• Games
• Playing and ripping DVDs and BluRays
• Wayland

Miscellaneous

• Bitcoin

Hardware

• MTP: automount of devices using MTP protocol

Desktop

• IBus
• Keyboard switching

Server & Security

Network services

• hostapd
• zeroconf
• OpenVPN: How to setup an OpenVPN server

Project & Community

• How to contribute to Gentoo