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To find information use the search box on the top right corner of the screen, or categorically browse the wiki using the Documentation topic links provided below.
Both official Gentoo project documentation as well as community-contributed content can be found here. The vast majority of documentation is publicly editable. Official documents have a Handbook: or Project: prefix (only developers can edit them). Community members can leave comments/feedback for these pages via their respective Discussion pages.
Find something to add or edit? The Getting started section (below) gives contributors a few pointers on how to start editing articles.
Most importantly, the Gentoo Handbook is among the best documents found on the wiki:
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News
October 31, 2020: Update to MediaWiki 1.35.0
Version 1.35.0 of MediaWiki has been deployed to our wiki! Wiki contributors can enjoy the new visual editor. Please report any issues under our wiki site category on Bugzilla.
October 2, 2020: Tomorrow's Gentoo Bugday will be focused on wiki improvements
It is a little short notice, however the next Gentoo Bugday will focus on improving documentation around the wiki. Improvements can always be made, so as always we hope to see our community members getting involved tomorrow. Join us on Freenode IRC in #gentoo-bugday if you would like to chat or do not know where to begin.
April 17, 2019: New community user wiki profile form
A community user profile form has been created to help our community members create their wiki profile pages. Using this form will help our community avoid formatting their userspace pages using the traditional {{InfoBox}} templates. Presently the user form is fairly basic. Users can add their real name, nickname, website, PGP key fingerprint, etc. Expect functionality to be expanded in the future.
Getting started
Anyone is welcome to edit or create pages on this wiki.
Gentoo wiki contributors encourage beginners to consult the Help page before making edits. It also links to the MediaWiki User's Guide which contains information on how to use wiki software.
If there is something we can improve please let us know on the Feedback page.
For any questions related to using or editing the wiki, you can always join our #gentoo-wiki IRC channel on Freenode or email us at wiki@gentoo.org.
Please note: For general Gentoo support, please get in touch with our support community instead. General support is not provided via the wiki.
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- 08:43, 10 May 2021 Xp-pen (hist | edit) [1,502 bytes] YellowKll (talk | contribs) (Created page with "This article describes how to install xp-pen drivers on gentoo. == Prerequisites == === Kernel === The driver requires user level driver (<var>CONFIG_INPUT_UINPUT</var>) supp...")
- 19:23, 6 May 2021 Subuid subgid (hist | edit) [3,330 bytes] Aisha (talk | contribs) (Create a dedicated page for subuid/gid information as it is replicated half-heartedly in all containerization pages.)
- 01:33, 25 April 2021 Portage Multi Stage Dockerfile (hist | edit) [4,896 bytes] Zmedico (talk | contribs) (Created page with "The {{c|emerge --quickpkg-direct}} and related {{c|emerge --quickpkg-direct-root}} options are useful inside Dockerfiles. Here is an example Dockerfile that creates a minimal...") Tag: Visual edit: Switched originally created as "Portage-Multi-Stage-Dockerfile"
- 11:42, 10 April 2021 Google Summer of Code/2021/Ideas/Big Data Infrastructure by Gentoo (hist | edit) [1,869 bytes] Heroxbd (talk | contribs) (Created page with "<!-- Important: The title must be the same as the page title, otherwise the link URL will be wrong! Also, no line break after the page title! --> {{GSoCIdea |...")
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