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 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!

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).

Configuration management tools

Ansible - Started by Jirutka . Finished by ?
CFEngine -
Chef -
~~Puppet~~ - Done! ( Alex Legler (a3li) )
Salt - Michael Everitt (veremit) will start something on this

Software

Data compression

bzip2 -
gzip -
~~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 -
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 -
Quassel -
~~Pidgin~~ - Done! ( Christopher Díaz Riveros (ChrisADR) )
~~HexChat~~ - In progress. ( Joshua Rutkowski (Jrtk) )

Hardware

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

Network

~~Network interface~~ - Done!

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

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 -
fwbuilder -
guacamole -
italc -
~~metasploit~~ - Done! ( Christopher Díaz Riveros (ChrisADR) )
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.