User:JGaz/wiki todo

Articles to Write

Next

• Template:HandbookLink documentation... see: https://wiki.gentoo.org/index.php?title=Template:HandbookLink.
• openssl
• Add file managers to the Terminal productivity software article.
• Pandoc revise article to include information about:
  • app-text/pandoc
  • app-text/pandoc-bin
  • haskell:app-text/pandoc-cli
• The boot process in excruciating detail, start with what memory address the processor begins execution at and move forward from there:
  • Master Boot Record
  • Apple Partition Map (APM)
  • Amiga Rigid Disk Block (RDB)
  • ISO 9660
  • Raspberry Pi
  • Open Firmware
    • Detail startup procedure and boot device selection.
• Resolving endianness issues in C using the Alpha Porting Guide as a template.
• XDG Directories
• XDG Directory Applications list
• games-misc/fortune-mod the once ubiquitous fortune that was commonly set to run at login.
• sys-apps/miscfiles Most of its contents are mentioned in the README, but it also includes /usr/share/dict/words which is not.
• HP T620 and HP T620 Plus Thin Client
• NASM
• systemd-creds and its relationship to the trusted platform module TPM.
• systemd-ask-password and its relationship to systemd-creds.
• dev-lang/tcl.
• CPAN... including a list of CPAN clients.

Templates

• {{guru_package}} similar to {{package}}.
• {{haskell_package}} similar to {{package}}.

To-do Eventually

Security

• Data at rest encryption.

Coding

• Perl article overhaul.
  • Write in user subpage and get Dilfridge to sign off on it.
  • Lots more information on modern Perl itself.
  • Links to plenty of tutorials.
• C++
• COBOL and Gnucobol.
• Mono, of .NET fame.
• BASIC
• mono-basic / visual basic
• C#
• F# (part of the dev-lang/mono runtime?)
• ASP .Net

Runtimes

• dev-lang/mono
• dev-lang/mono-basic
  • .NET Famework
  • .NET (formerly .NET Core)
  • the future of Mono.
  • Introducing .NET 5; now mono relates.
• www-servers/xsp (mono ASP .Net?)

VM Related

• UEFI
• Open Firmware
• SeaBIOS

App Emulation

• dosemu
• dosbox

Misc

• Notmuch a fast, global-search and tag-based email system to use within your text editor or in a terminal.
• Linux IRQ Handling.
• Jargon:
  • Remove jargon redirect.
  • rename Abbreviations, terminology, and jargon something like "Gentoo Specific Terminology.
  • Write a doc for app-doc/jargon.

Follow Up

• Move sc to sc-im, and rewrite it to refer to sc-im; cite app-office/sc: Requesting last rites.

Cleanup

• Write a general gcc article. It can be a stub, but make it a good one.
  • Remove the GGC --> GCC Upgrades redirect but link to the original article. Eventually, the articles will probably merge.
• Clang. Try to figure out how to refactor the article. A long article is fine as long as it flows well. This article may or may not need to be split up.

Larger Projects

• Fully document how to create custom profiles and merge existing ones.
  • Sam has his own profile overlay on GitHub at thesamesam/overlay/, talk to him if you get stuck.