Useful Stuff

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Where to Get Help

IRC

For a person to person chat there are two great places: IRC or the forums. I personally prefer the forums because the main #Gentoo channel is so vast it is hard to be heard, if you like IRC your best bet would be your country specific channel like #gentoo-de or #gentoo-uk or #gentoo-fr.

Forums

If like me you prefer the forums then get yourself over to forums.gentoo.org, make an account, choose a forum where your problem lies and post about it. Soon someone will come along and ask for more info and try to help you.

Non Support Forums

The Gentoo forums also have chat forums - usually in any language you require. For general chat about Gentoo that isn't a support question you have Gentoo Chat and if you want to talk about something else - politics, jokes, anything that isn't Gentoo related you have OTW - Off The Wall.

The Gentoo Handbook

Gentoo has an awesome amount of documentation but it's main document is one you should already be familiar with - The Gentoo Handbook. It is what you would have most likely used to install with. It has lots of information about portage, USE flags and everything else in 8 different languages including simplified Chinese and Japanese.

Specific Documentation

There will also be tims when you will need help with X, Gnome, KDE, GRUB, UTF8, localization, Fluxbox, GCC and anything and everything. A complete listing can be found here but I will give you a quick listing of the most popular (and most likely the most needed).

Developer Manual

For those of you who want to learn more about Gentoo's internals and things like ebuild writing then you should read the developer manual. It is situated here