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1.  Gentoo Documentation Resources

Available Languages

Our documentation is also available in the following languages:

Czech | English | French | German | Italian | Japanese | Polish | Simplified Chinese | Spanish

Introduction

Welcome to the Gentoo Documentation Resources. This page will give you a quick overview on the documentation we provide. Most documentation is released under the Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license, an open documentation license. All documentation should also be available in a printer-friendly format. To view this document, append ?style=printable to the URL. You'll also find a "Print" link on the top-right corner of each document.

If you find bugs in our documentation or have proposals, please use our Bugtracking System and fill in a bug report for "Documentation" or "Doc Other". These bug reports will then be handled by the Gentoo Documentation Project.

Documentation Repository

Our documentation is categorized and hierarchically navigable. If you want a quick overview of all available documentation without the additional information, please use our Documentation Listing page. We also have a full listing of all our documents with their descriptions.

2.  Frequently Asked Questions

Gentoo Linux Frequently Asked Questions: This FAQ is a collection of questions and answers collected from the gentoo-dev mailing list and from IRC.

Gentoo Linux/Alpha Frequently Asked Questions: This FAQ is intended to answer some of the most frequently asked questions relating to Gentoo/Alpha and Linux/Alpha in general.

Gentoo Linux/AMD64 Frequently Asked Questions: This is the Gentoo Linux/AMD64 Frequently Asked Questions

Gentoo Linux/PowerPC Frequently Asked Questions: The Gentoo/PPC FAQ is a collection of questions and answers collected from the Gentoo/PPC mailing lists and from IRC.

Gentoo Linux/SPARC Frequently Asked Questions: This FAQ is designed to help answer the most commonly asked questions about Gentoo Linux/SPARC and Linux on SPARC architecture. Feel free to send revisions and corrections to the sparc team or the doc team.

Gentoo Linux/MIPS Frequently Asked Questions: This FAQ is intended to answer some of the most frequently asked questions relating to Gentoo/MIPS and Linux/MIPS in general.



Updated November 15, 2009

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