Calculate Linux Documentation

Our documentation is available in the following languages:
English | Russian

  1. Installing Calculate
    1. Installing Calculate Linux
    2. Installation Guide; also available in French and in Spanish
    3. Hardware Requirements
    4. FTP Mirror Structure
    5. Disk Partitioning
    6. Software
    7. Installation From LiveCD
    8. Where to Go From Here?
  2. Working with Calculate
    1. Frequently Asked Questions
    2. User Guide
    3. Create System Users
    4. Add/Remove Programs
    5. System Update Guide
    6. Init Scripts
    7. Compiling Your Kernel with the cl-kernel Tool
    8. Interactive System Build
    9. System Utilities
    10. System Optimization
    11. Packages from Calculate Overlay: calcboot, calckernel, calculate-sources, keyexec, pam_keystore
  3. Working with Portage
    1. A Portage Introduction
    2. USE Flags
    3. Portage Features
    4. Environment Variables
    5. Files and Directories
    6. Configuring through Variables
    7. Mixing Software Branches
    8. Additional Portage Tools
    9. Diverting From the Official Tree
    10. Using ebuild
  4. Calculate Utilities
    1. Calculate Utilities Graphical Manager
    2. Calculate Utilities Console Manager
    3. Calculate Templates
    4. Templates Variables
    5. Storing User Profile Settings
    6. Building Your System with calculate-assemble
  5. Server Configuration
    1. Migrating users to Calculate Directory Server
    2. Configuring an LDAP server
    3. Using LDAP for User Accounts
    4. Configuring a Samba Server
    5. Setting Filesystem ACL
    6. Configuring an FTP Server
    7. Configuring a Jabber Server
    8. Configuring a Mail Server
    9. Configuring a Proxy Server
    10. Configuring a DNS Server
    11. Configuring a DHCP Server
    12. Configuring PXE
    13. Configuring Samba Servers Replication
    14. Configuring Mail Servers Replication
    15. Configuring a Gateway Server
    16. Configuring an Asterisk Server
    17. LDAP Server Structure
    18. Managing CLD Clients
    19. Gitolite + Git Configuration
    20. Gitosis + Git Configuration
    21. Backup
  6. Workstation Setup
    1. Migration to Linux
    2. Connecting to a Directory Server
    3. Storing Users' Profiles
    4. Setting Up WM Environment
  7. Calculate Network Configuration
    1. Network Configuration
    2. Configuring Your Network with Calculate Utilities
  8. Hardware Setup
    1. Sound Configuration
    2. Software Modem Configuration
    3. Configuring a TV Tuner: Avermedia AVerTV 305/307
    4. Configuring a Scanner: Epson Perfection 1670
    5. Configuring Wake-on-LAN
  9. Manuals
    • portage - Portage is the package management and distribution system for Gentoo
    • eix - Search and query ebuilds, portage incl. local settings, ext. overlays, version changes, and more
    • layman - Tool to manage Gentoo overlays
    • openrc - OpenRC manages the services, startup and shutdown of a host
    • portage-utils - small and fast portage helper tools written in C
    • gentoolkit - Collection of administration scripts for Gentoo
    • gentoolkit-dev - Collection of developer scripts for Gentoo
  10. Guides
    1. IRC: Description
    2. Git, a Distributed Revision Control System; Recommit
    3. Software Raid
    4. Re-Encoding MP3 Tags

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