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. 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!

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

Base system

 * uClibc - How to replace glibc with uClibc/ See http://www.uclibc.org/

Installation

 * AMD Quick Install Guide to parallel the Quick Install Guide - Done! The install guide has been updated to handle both x86 and AMD64 systems.
 * Multi-boot
 * Kernel/Configuration: Kernel configuration walk through - Done!
 * Examples on how to use Kernel seeds - Done!

System tools and daemons

 * daemontools
 * s6 - Done!

Gentoo-specific tools

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

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,...) -
 * Docker, see Project:Docker

Shell and terminal console

 * Busybox -
 * getty -
 * kmscon -

Graphical

 * Playing DVDs and BluRays -
 * Wayland - Done!
 * jumanji -
 * mythtv -

IRC/Chat clients

 * IRC - Done!
 * IRC/Guide -


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

Hardware

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

Network

 * Network interface - Done!

Desktop

 * Keyboard switching - See Keyboard_layout_switching
 * A list of desktop environments - Done!

XMPP servers

 * ejabberd -
 * prosody -

Network services

 * bird -
 * beowulf cluster -
 * chrony -
 * dhcpd -
 * udhcpc -
 * dhclient -
 * etherape -
 * firehol -
 * firewalld -
 * fwbuilder -
 * guacamole -
 * italc -
 * metasploit -
 * nufw -
 * phpbb mods > solved & recaptcha
 * pepperspot -
 * pump -
 * rdesktop with grdesktop section
 * sanewall -
 * shorewall -
 * trac -
 * ufw-frontends -
 * zeroconf -