Gentoo Wiki:Requested Articles

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This page is a work in process by Gentoo wiki contributors. Anyone is welcome to help by creating articles (listed below) that do not exist on the wiki. Join #gentoo-wiki (webchat) if you have any questions!

Please list topics that users of the Gentoo wiki would like to see added to the Gentoo wiki.

See also
See also the Stub category index page for articles that need expansion, the Todo category for everything marked as needing work on the wiki, and common wiki tasks to help out.

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

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Gentoo development

• Resolving endianness issues in C akin to the Modern C porting, article. This should cover all of the ways endian issues can bite programmers and ebuild maintainers. As most software is written implicitly assuming a little-endian target such as AMD64 or ARM and this most commonly causes issues when compiling on PPC/PPC64, so this should be the base case the article deals with. That said, other platforms (where different) and odd edge-cases should also get covered.

Sam suggested using the Alpha porting guide as a jumping off point.

• Endianness articles for languages other than C, use Resolving endianness issues in C as a reference.

Project and community

• 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... ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )

Core system

Base system

• musl - How to replace glibc with musl. See https://www.musl-libc.org/
  • See Musl usage guide

Installation

• Multi-boot - A guide on how to boot multiple operating systems?
• 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

Currently no requested articles.

Virtualization, containers, chroots, etc.

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

Provisioning tools

• Cobbler -

Configuration management tools

• Salt -

Software

Data compression

• zpaq - in progress (User:Ng0/drafts/zpaq ng0 )

Shell and terminal console

• kmscon -

Graphical

• Playing DVDs and BluRays -

Hardware

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

Desktop

Currently no requested articles.

Server and security

Continuous integration

• TravisCI -

Static website engines

• Jekyll -
• Pelican -

XMPP servers

• prosody - In Progress (MalakymR )

Network services

• bird -
• self-hosting email - a detailed guide on everything involved in deploying and maintaining an email server, issues with mail delivery and spam, etc. and how to overcome them. See https://workaround.org/ as a good example of this.
• udhcpc -
• etherape -
• firehol -
• fwbuilder -
• 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.
• rdesktop with grdesktop section
• sanewall -
• shorewall -
• ufw-frontends -
• zeroconf -

Redlinks

• Special:WantedPages - List generated by the wiki itself of links that don't have a destination page.