The Gentoo Chinese Community, Under Construction

Gentoo is a free operating system based on Linux or FreeBSD that can automatically optimize and tune itself for just about any application or need. What makes Gentoo Gentoo: you can configure it to an extreme degree, it chases performance hard, and it has a great community of users and developers.

Gentoo has had two active Chinese communities before, but both were gone by around 2010, leaving only scattered talk on the IRC channel and the mailing list. So this Gentoo Chinese project is the third attempt, you could say. The idea is to pull together the Gentoo-related resources scattered across mainland China, get Gentoo users in one place to talk shop, help newcomers with their problems, and give the experts somewhere to trade technical know-how. Down the road we want more people in mainland China running Gentoo, and through that, raise the local level of Linux know-how and give back to upstream Gentoo.

The Gentoo Chinese Community is still under construction, and the only thing this site can do right now is show off display text, just to prove the project exists.

Work to be done in phase one:

• Jekyll template
• Form a translation team
  • News translation
  • Documentation translation
• Vector redraw of the Gentoo Chinese Community logo
• Flesh out the introductory text for Gentoo and gentoo-zh

Work to be done in phase two:

• A mirror of the gentoo-zh overlay
• A SquashFS archive of the Portage tree