Gentoo Wiki:Requested Articles

Please list topics that you think the Gentoo Wiki should cover. See also the Stub category index page for articles that need expansion.

Installation

 * AMD64 Quick Install Guide to parallel the x86 quick install guide
 * Filesystem
 * Gentoo on ZFS: how to install Gentoo with ZFS root filesystem; ryao guide and pendor guide
 * Install Gentoo on a bootable USB stick
 * Localization
 * Partitioning tools such as fdisk, parted and gptfdisk

Boot

 * Bootloader: general introduction to various bootloaders, linking to pages for specific ones (e.g. Grub, Syslinux)
 * Multi-boot
 * bootchart2: generate nice looking charts of the boot process: homepage

System tools and daemons

 * cron
 * logrotate
 * SSH

Gentoo-specific tools

 * eix: stub added, may need to be expanded
 * elogv
 * euses
 * eselect
 * genlop
 * gentoolkit
 * portage-utils
 * rc-update
 * ufed

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,...)

Shell and terminal console

 * Busybox
 * Dash
 * Mksh
 * Recommended tools such as htop, pydf

Graphical

 * Games
 * Playing and ripping DVDs and BluRays
 * Recommended applications, possibly split into pages for different categories. There is already Qt/Desktop.

Hardware

 * MTP: automount of devices using MTP protocol
 * fglrx: article for the proprietary AMD driver?

Desktop

 * Compose key
 * Input methods such as fcitx, gcin, HIME and IBus
 * Keyboard switching

Network services

 * hostapd
 * iptables: how to install/use to manipulate tables, net-firewall/ipset etc. Wikipedia, man page, CentOS howto
 * NFS4: How to setup NFSv4, including security features through Kerberos. Here's a concise Ubuntu Guide
 * zeroconf

Webservers

 * Apache2: stub added, needs expansion

Project & Community

 * Beautiful bug reports: needs expansion
 * How to contribute to Gentoo