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Larry the cow beckons you to explore the wiki!

Available documentation

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:

Gentoo Handbook (Official installation documentation)

Documentation topics

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Contributing

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News

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.

January 16, 2019: New sections added to wiki guidelines

After some review a few new sections have been added to the Gentoo wiki Guidelines. Contributors are encouraged to review the guidelines every once in a while to refresh themselves on recommended wiki prose. Happy New Year!

December 7, 2018: Updates complete

Updates complete! Please report any issues under our wiki site category on Bugzilla.

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.

Recently added pages

10:35, 17 March 2020 ‎Glibc 2.30 porting notes/testsuite (hist) ‎[729 bytes] ‎Dilfridge (talk | contribs) (started page)
19:15, 16 March 2020 ‎Upgrading LLVM (hist) ‎[221 bytes] ‎Jstein (talk | contribs) (Created page with "== Notes on upgrading to LLVM 10 ==")
19:50, 14 March 2020 ‎Raid1 with LVM from scratch (hist) ‎[7,496 bytes] ‎Feniksa (talk | contribs) (Created page with "In this manual will be created RAID1 with LVM. In this tutorial, disk are mounted in system as /dev/sdX and /dev/sdY == Prerequisites == * 2 empty HDDs with same capacity *...")
22:35, 10 March 2020 ‎Glibc 2.31 porting notes/stime removal (hist) ‎[886 bytes] ‎Sam c (talk | contribs) (Create page on stime() being removed from glibc 3.31.) originally created as "Glibc 3.31 porting notes/stime removal"
20:55, 5 March 2020 ‎Google Summer of Code/2020/Ideas/FUSE-powered sandbox (hist) ‎[1,259 bytes] ‎MGorny (talk | contribs) (FUSE-powered sandbox)

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