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 our wiki. Join #gentoo-wiki (webchat) if you have any questions!

Please list 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.

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Gentoo development

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

• Developer Handbook - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )

Project and community

• How to contribute to Gentoo - Done! ( Ben de Groot (Yngwin) )
• 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/
• 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! (Defer ) The install guide has been updated to handle both x86 and AMD64 systems.
• Multi-boot - A guide on how to boot multiple operating systems?
• Kernel/Configuration: Kernel configuration walk through - Done! ( Arne Stäcker (Astaecker) )
  • Examples on how to use Kernel seeds - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• 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! (GuillermoDH and Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• sysklogd - Done! (Needle )
• syslog-ng - Done!
• s6 - Done! (Tclover )

Gentoo-specific tools

• egencache - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• elogv - Done! ( Joshua Rutkowski (Jrtk) )
• epkginfo - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• portageq - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• qcheck - Done! ( Joshua Rutkowski (Jrtk) )
• savedconfig -Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• ufed - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )

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,...) -
• Docker - Done! (Sasf54 and Nemunaire )
  • See Project:Docker for the official Gentoo project.

Provisioning tools

• Cobbler -

Configuration management tools

• Ansible - Started by Jirutka . Finished by ?
• CFEngine -
• Chef -
• Puppet - Done! ( Alex Legler (a3li) )
• Salt

Software

Data compression

• bzip2 - Done! (Stonespheres )
• gzip - Done! ( Jeff Gazso (JGaz) )
• tar - Done! ( Christopher Díaz Riveros (ChrisADR) )
• unzip - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• xz -
• zip - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• zpaq - in progress (User:Ng0/drafts/zpaq ng0 )

Shell and terminal console

• shellinabox - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (maffblaster) )
• Busybox - Done! (Bobbbay )
• getty -
• kmscon -
• st - Done! (Hariskar )

Graphical

• Playing DVDs and BluRays -
• Wayland - Done! (James )
• jumanji -
• MythTV - In progress ( Gavin Pryke (Gavlee) )

IRC/Chat clients

• IRC - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• IRC/Guide - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )

• WeeChat - Done! ( Matthew Marchese (Maffblaster) )
• Konversation - Done! ( Thamognya (Jeff132312342q4323) )
• Quassel - Done! ( Thamognya (Jeff132312342q4323) )
• Pidgin - Done! ( Christopher Díaz Riveros (ChrisADR) )
• HexChat - Done! ( Joshua Rutkowski (Jrtk) )

Hardware

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

Desktop

• Keyboard layout switching - Done! (Nfk )
• A list of desktop environments - Done! (Reisio , Matthew Marchese (maffblaster) )

Server and security

Continuous integration

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

Static website engines

• Jekyll -
• Hugo -
• Pelican -

XMPP servers

• ejabberd - Done! (Frnk )
• prosody - In Progress (MalakymR )

Network services

• bird -
• beowulf cluster -
• chrony - Done! Brian Evans (Grknight)
• dhcpd -
• udhcpc -
• dhclient -
• etherape -
• firehol -
• firewalld - Done! (ILMostro )
• fwbuilder -
• guacamole -
• italc -
• metasploit - Done! ( Christopher Díaz Riveros (ChrisADR) )
• 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.