All IRC channels

This page offers a listing of all official IRC channels operated by the Gentoo project.

Before joining a channel…
…please be sure that you have taken note of our IRC guidelines. Upon connecting and entering a channel, please take a moment read the channel's topic. They typically contain timely details on issues.

Primary support channels

Channel Description
#gentoo (webchat) General support questions, including but not limited to: the installation process, init systems, or a particular Gentoo tool? Ask here first.
#gentoo-dev (webchat) Discussion about the active development of Gentoo Linux, requires voice (+v).
#gentoo-groupcontacts (webchat) Gentoo Group Contacts are the official means of requesting or reporting an issue with an IRC cloak or channel, etc.
#gentoo-ops (webchat) Questions or complaints about #gentoo policy or bans must be raised here only.

Architecture/Platform support channels

Channel Description
#gentoo-alpha (webchat) Gentoo Linux/Alpha
#gentoo-amd64 (webchat) Gentoo Linux/AMD64
#gentoo-amd64-dev (webchat) Gentoo Linux/AMD64 developer channel
#gentoo-arm (webchat) Gentoo Linux/ARM
#gentoo-hppa (webchat) Gentoo Linux/HPPA
#gentoo-ia64 (webchat) Gentoo Linux/IA-64
#gentoo-loong (webchat) Gentoo Linux/LoongArch
#gentoo-mips (webchat) Gentoo Linux/MIPS
#gentoo-powerpc (webchat) Gentoo Linux/PowerPC (PPC and PPC64)
#gentoo-riscv (webchat) Gentoo Linux/RISC-V
#gentoo-sparc (webchat) Gentoo Linux/SPARC
#gentoo-x86 (webchat) Gentoo Linux/x86 development

General and development channels

Channel Description
#gentoo-accessibility (webchat) The Accessibility project
#gentoo-apache (webchat) Gentoo Apache development related chat
#gentoo-base (webchat) Gentoo Base System Project
#gentoo-bugday (webchat) Gentoo BugDay Events, Gentoo bug fixing
#gentoo-bugs (webchat) Real-time Gentoo new bug notification channel
#gentoo-chromium (webchat) Discussion about Chromium, Google Chrome, and related packages
#gentoo-cluster (webchat) Gentoo Linux/Clustering
#gentoo-council (webchat) Gentoo Council
#gentoo-commits (webchat) Real-time Gentoo git commit notification channel
#gentoo-comrel (webchat) The Community Relations project
#gentoo-db (webchat) Database-related packages and discussion
#gentoo-desktop (webchat) Developers & users: all things desktop
#gentoo-dev-help (webchat) Ebuild writers' workplace
#gentoo-doc (webchat) Gentoo Documentation development (also see #gentoo-wiki).
#gentoo-dotnet (webchat) Gentoo Dotnet development
#gentoo-elections (webchat) Discussion about elections of Gentoo Council and Board of Trustees of Gentoo Foundation
#gentoo-embedded (webchat) Embedded Gentoo Linux
#gentoo-events (webchat) Planning and real-time chat during Gentoo public events
#gentoo-forums (webchat) Gentoo Forums related chat
#gentoo-games (webchat) Gentoo Linux native gaming discussion (no Proton/Wine)
#gentoo-guis (webchat) Gentoo GUIs project
#gentoo-guru (webchat) GURU project
#gentoo-hardened (webchat) Hardened Gentoo Linux
#gentoo-haskell (webchat) Haskell Packages
#gentoo-java (webchat) Java related chat
#gentoo-kde (webchat) KDE package maintainance
#gentoo-kernel (webchat) Gentoo Kernel development discussion
#gentoo-laptop (webchat) Laptop related chat
#gentoo-libressl (webchat) LibreSSL support channel
#gentoo-lisp (webchat) Gentoo Lisp related chat
#gentoo-llvm (webchat) Discussion about LLVM toolchain (LLVM, Clang, LLD, LLDB, etc.)
#gentoo-lua (webchat) Discussion about Lua packages
#gentoo-media (webchat) Gentoo multimedia development
#gentoo-mirrors (webchat) Gentoo mirrors and administration chat
#gentoo-ml (webchat) Discussion about ML packages
#gentoo-mozilla (webchat) Discussion about Mozilla packages (Firefox, Thunderbird, SeaMonkey, etc.)
#gentoo-netmon (webchat) Network Monitoring Packages
#gentoo-office (webchat) Gentoo Office support channel
#gentoo-openbsd (webchat) Gentoo Portage on OpenBSD
#gentoo-overlays (webchat) Support channel for the Gentoo Overlays project
#gentoo-perl (webchat) All things Gentoo perl
#gentoo-php (webchat) Gentoo PHP discussion/support
#gentoo-pms (webchat) Discussion about Package Manager Specification
#gentoo-portage (webchat) Gentoo Portage development
#gentoo-pr (webchat) The Public Relations project
#gentoo-proxy-maint (webchat) Discussion channel for Proxy Maintainers
#gentoo-prefix (webchat) The Gentoo Prefix project
#gentoo-python (webchat) Gentoo Python discussion and support
#gentoo-qa (webchat) Gentoo Quality Assurance
#gentoo-qt (webchat) Gentoo Qt project
#gentoo-releng (webchat) Gentoo Release Engineering internal discussion
#gentoo-ruby (webchat) Ruby on Gentoo
#gentoo-rust (webchat) Discussion about Rust packages
#gentoo-science (webchat) Gentoo Scientific Project
#gentoo-security (webchat) Discussions about the security of Gentoo Linux
#gentoo-server (webchat) Server related chat
#gentoo-soc (webchat) Discussions related to participation in the Google Summer of Code
#gentoo-systemd (webchat) Discussion about systemd
#gentoo-tex (webchat) Discussion about TeX packages
#gentoo-toolchain (webchat) Discussion about the Gentoo toolchain (GCC, libc, binutils, etc.)
#gentoo-trustees (webchat) The Trustees of the Gentoo Foundation
#gentoo-vbox (webchat) Support and development channel for virtualbox on Gentoo
#gentoo-vdr (webchat) Gentoo VDR and DVB related chat
#gentoo-vim (webchat) Gentoo Vim discussion
#gentoo-virtualization (webchat) Discussion about virtualization (KVM, Linux-VServer, OpenStack, OpenVZ, QEMU, VirtualBox, VMware, Xen, etc.)
#gentoo-voip (webchat) Voice over IP related discussion
#gentoo-vps (webchat) Gentoo Virtual Private Server related chat
#gentoo-web (webchat) Everything web and webapp related (on Gentoo of course)
#gentoo-wiki (webchat) Discussion on new or existing wiki documentation (not to be used for Handbook support)
#gentoo-wine (webchat) Support and development channel for Wine and related applications
#gentoo-www (webchat) Discussions about gentoo.org web sites and applications
#gentoo-xfce (webchat) Gentoo XFCE desktop environment discussion

International channels

Channel Description
#gentoo-au (webchat) Australia
#gentoo-be (webchat) In het Nederlands
#gentoo-br (webchat) Português do Brasil
#gentoo-by (webchat) На беларускай мове
#gentoo-cs (webchat) česky a slovensky
#gentoo-de (webchat) Auf Deutsch
#gentoo-dk (webchat) På Dansk
#gentoo-el (webchat) Στα Ελληνικά
#gentoo-es (webchat) En español
#gentoo-fi (webchat) Suomeksi
#gentoo-fr (webchat) En français
#gentoo-id (webchat) Komunitas Pengguna Gentoo Indonesia
#gentoo-in (webchat) Support for Indian Gentoo Users and Indic localization
#gentoo-ir (webchat) Support for Iranian Gentoo Users and localization
#gentoo-it (webchat) In Italiano
#gentoo-ja (webchat) 日本語で
#gentoo-ko (webchat) 한국어로
#gentoo-nl (webchat) In het Nederlands
#gentoo-no (webchat) På norsk
#gentoo-pl (webchat) Po Polsku
#gentoo-pt (webchat) Em Português
#gentoo-ro (webchat) Discuţii în limba română
#gentoo-rs (webchat) Na srpskom jeziku (I njemu sličnim)
#gentoo-ru (webchat) На русском языке
#gentoo-se (webchat) På svenska
#gentoo-th (webchat) เป็นภาษาไทย
#gentoo-tr (webchat) Resmi Gentoo Türkiye kanalı
#gentoo-tw (webchat) 使用繁體中文(台灣)
#gentoo-ua (webchat) Українською
#gentoo-uk (webchat) United Kingdom
#gentoo-ve (webchat) Venezuela
#gentoo-zh (webchat) 简体中文