Daniel Robbins shares his experiences as he redesigns the Gentoo-Web site using technologies like XML, XSLT, and Python.

A tool that allows to edit ebuild-scripts and check the syntax before trying to build it. Lists features, downloads, documentation and screenshots.

A frontend written in sh which makes Portage (the Gentoo Linux package manager) more efficient by backgrounding downloads and allowing for automatic prelinking of packages.

Provides additional packages that are not provided in the main distribution and a guide about how to set the CFLAGS for compiling.

Provides a Python script for managing config files created by portage.

Provides information about supported implementations of the Lisp programming language.

A liveCD based Gentoo that can be used to boot Linux without installing.

Some ebuilds and a small howto about software suspend under Gentoo.

Provides additional ebuilds in a Subversion-repository.

Provides a basic feature list and a package comparison table.

Some unofficial ebuilds. Includes packages for FileLight, Universal Kopete, EventWatcher, KDar, Rekall, sitelinks, Fireworks 3D, Knifty, XMMS Outpost, VisualBoyAdvance, KVisualBoyAdvance, XMMS Outpost, Komics and others.

Provides a couple of tarballs that make it possible to use portage in an already existing OpenBSD or FreeBSD installation. Also provides a description of the internals of portage.

A perl script that parses portage log-files for information.

The goal of this project is to provide a testbed for all kind of patches to portage, the package management system.

The official pages for the distribution provide documentation, downloads and installation instructions, mailing-lists, forums, performance reviews and news.

This site holds stats about Gentoo and the ability of calculating mergetimes beforehand.

Base the propjects Cacko X11 Rom and The Emerde Project. Provides documentation for the project, downloads, HOWTOs and screenshots.

Discussion forums for topics around the distribution, Linux applications, installation, administration, portage, frequently asked questions.

Describes the steps that are required for installing on a Fujitsu notebook.

Provides patches and information about running on a Sony PlayStation 2.

Instructions on how to install on an Apple iBook.

Explains what Gentoo Linux is all about and presents new features in Version 1.4.

Provides information about how to make an installation more secure. Describes how to adjust the Kernel, firewalls, services and other parts of the system.

Provides a journal of user-experiences. Managed by Users.

Frequently Unanswered Questions (FUQ), some ebuilds from Stoyan Zhekov and scripts extracted from the forums.

The official weblog aggregator for the project that creates one feed out of many Gentoo Linux developer feeds. Lists all contributors and the latest posts by various developers.

The project aims at creating and documenting the use of Gentoo Linux in an enterprise environment. Includes installation guides for some advanced network and administration features.

Users let a script automatically report statistics to provide information about the user-base. Provides information about the collected statistics in various categories.

Offers Gentoo-related products. Store profits are used to support Gentoo development efforts, server infrastructure and further efforts to establish a not-for-profit entity for Gentoo.

Unofficial user area with interactive support, forums and news.

A WikiWiki that provides HowTos, Tips and Tricks and man-pages around the Portage packaging system.

An unofficial package listing system. It provides information regarding the available packages and allows users to post comments.

Website for Gentoo UK. Events, news, RSS-Feed, Howtos, Links.

Describes how to get Gentoo running on a Microsoft Xbox. Downloads, FAQ, Forums, Links, Developers, News and Tutorials.

A user interface for the package management tool Portage.

A step-by-step tutorial on setting up Gentoo including a checklist and pictures of the required steps.

A comparison and critique of Gentoo and FreeBSD.

Describes how to get PCI and USB hardware to work with Gentoo.

A graphical frontend for portage. Releasenote, changelog, download and screenshots.

A description of the installation process.

Describes the Gentoo installation procedure. Basic installation, Audio, GUI, Video, links.

Describes how to install on the Toshiba Portege 2000.

A review describing the experience during installation and a summary of strong points and weaknesses.

Daniel Robbins, Gentoo's chief architect, spoke to students and professors at Stanford University's Computer Systems Lab. Danny O'Brien reports on his presentation, which focused on lesser known aspects of Gentoo: how it evolved, what problems it had.

Provides ISO-images for burning installation-CDs.

A review of Gentoo Linux 1.1a.

General documentation, tips and help with USE flags, emerge, portage and custom ebuilds.

Ladislav Bodnar talks about how Gentoo became one of the most widely used distributions. Describes originality, persistence, packages, documentation, community.

A long-term Red Hat Linux user has given an honest look at Gentoo, and has concluded that the stereotypes surrounding this distribution are false.

A blog about Gentoo-Development by Pieter Van den Abeele.

A review of the distribution.

A review of the distribution.

Lists new packages and provides changelogs, displays stable and unstable versions of a package and allows searching for packages by name and description.

A collection of entries in Blogs related to Gentoo.

Aims to provide relatively up-to-date binary packages. It is unofficial, experimental, and not supported by Gentoo.

Statistics about CVS-Activity in Gentoo. Also allows to show commits categorized by submitter.

General documentation, tips and help with USE flags, emerge, portage and custom ebuilds.

A GUI to the emerge command to handle packages.

A Developer blogs about the work on Gentoo and other topics.

The project aims to build solutions based on Gentoo for Single System Image, High Performance Computing and other related fields. Provides ebuilds for various HPC-projects.

A GTK-based frontend for Portage. Provides a short description, screenshots, downloads and an ebuild for the software.

Lists which compile-flags provide good and safe results on different processors and platforms.

Provides some ebuilds for Gentoo that are not yet in the portage tree.