Documentation

Looking for the Gentoo Handbook?
Gentoo Handbook

Our most referred to piece of documentation is the Gentoo Handbook. It describes the installation process of a new Gentoo system in detail. Click the button on the right to directly start reading it.

Most of our documentation is available on the Gentoo wiki:

Finding documentation on the Gentoo wiki

If you know what you are looking for, you can simply search for one or more keywords:

Or, browse the wiki contents using these categories:

Core system Software Hardware Desktop Server and security Project and community

Developer documentation

In addition to the documentation available on the wiki, we also offer documentation resources geared towards Gentoo development:

Gentoo Development Guide (a.k.a Devmanual).
Online eclass reference.