Gentoo Wiki:Requested Articles

Please list Article description::some topics that users of the Gentoo wiki would like to see added to the Gentoo wiki. See also the Stub category index page for articles that need expansion. Many requests listed here are works in progress, so feel free to add new pages or to improve pages that are linked here. There is still much to do!

If any pages requested here are found to already exist on the wiki, please cross them off the list or remove the corresponding entry.

Gentoo development

 * Portage Development - Done! (Portage project). See the projects subarticles and documentation.


 * Developer Handbook - Done!

Project and community

 * How to contribute to Gentoo - Done!
 * 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...

Base system

 * musl - How to replace glibc with musl. See https://www.musl-libc.org/
 * slots - How slots work and how to use them, from a user perspective. I can't find much info on this save from in the dev manual. Emerge man page mentions slots, but there is no in depth explanation.
 * uClibc-ng - How to replace glibc with uClibc-ng. See https://uclibc-ng.org/

Installation

 * Quick Install Guide to parallel the Quick Install Guide - Done! The install guide has been updated to handle both  and  systems.
 * Multi-boot - A guide on how to boot multiple operating systems?
 * Kernel/Configuration: Kernel configuration walk through - Done!
 * Examples on how to use Kernel seeds - Done!
 * 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 - Done! ( and )
 * sysklogd - Done!
 * syslog-ng - Done!
 * s6 - Done!

Gentoo-specific tools

 * egencache - Done!
 * elogv - Done!
 * epkginfo - Done!
 * portageq - Done!
 * qcheck - Done!
 * savedconfig -Done!
 * ufed - Done!

Virtualization, containers, chroots, etc.

 * Chroot Guide (to test self-written ebuilds) - In progress...
 * Chroot, x86 Chroot Guide (x86 Project), 32-bit Chroot Guide (AMD64 project), maybe use Schroot
 * Profile switching (Arch/Subarch, multilib,...) -
 * Docker - Done! ( and )
 * See Project:Docker for the official Gentoo project.

Provisioning tools

 * Cobbler -

Configuration management tools

 * Ansible - Started by . Finished by ?
 * Chef -
 * Puppet - Done!
 * Salt

Data compression

 * bzip2 - Done!
 * gzip - Done!
 * tar - Done!
 * unzip - Done!
 * xz -
 * zip - Done!
 * zpaq - in progress (User:Ng0/drafts/zpaq )

Shell and terminal console

 * shellinabox - Done!
 * Busybox - Done!
 * getty -
 * kmscon -
 * st - Done!

Graphical

 * Playing DVDs and BluRays -
 * Wayland - Done!
 * jumanji -
 * MythTV - In progress

IRC/Chat clients

 * IRC - Done!
 * IRC/Guide - Done!


 * WeeChat - Done!
 * Konversation - Done!
 * Quassel - Done!
 * Pidgin - Done!
 * HexChat - Done!

Hardware

 * Apcupsd: an application for interacting with APC uninterruptible power supplies -

Desktop

 * Keyboard layout switching - Done!
 * A list of desktop environments - Done!

Continuous integration

 * Jenkins - In progress by . Feel free to help out!
 * TravisCI -

Static website engines

 * Jekyll -
 * Hugo -
 * Pelican -

XMPP servers

 * ejabberd - Done!
 * prosody - In Progress

Network services

 * bird -
 * beowulf cluster -
 * chrony - Done!
 * dhcpd -
 * udhcpc -
 * dhclient -
 * etherape -
 * firehol -
 * firewalld - Done!
 * fwbuilder -
 * guacamole -
 * italc -
 * metasploit - Done!
 * network namespaces - seems of interest both to Gentoo users, and to the larger Linux community. There doesn't seem to be much information available currently.
 * 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.