About Source Mage
Source Mage is a source-based GNU/Linux distribution based on a Sorcery metaphor of "casting" and "dispelling" programs, which we refer to as "spells", and a package manager called "Sorcery". Our packages are designed to allow the user to customize the package any way they want (custom CFLAGS, LDFLAGS, ./configure flags, etc.) as well as offering as many of the package options as possible to the user up-front (you will not need to know what options a package has or what optional dependencies it can use ahead of time). All of our scripts are GPL'd and our package manager and packages are written in bash, so they are easy to learn and modify. Sorcery supports custom packages maintained by users, which can override the default package and will never be touched by updates. The magic is truly in your hands with Source Mage.
We are currently pre-1.0, and developing quickly. Most of our discussions are on our mailing lists or in IRC , so please feel free to subscribe and join in. You can find the details for contacting us on our contact page.
See a list of our intrepid developers at The Source Mage Developers page.
Wiki Translations
Install Source Mage
Repair using a Boot-CD in case of lilo or kernel troubles
Install with help from boot floppy for tips to get going.
Install on a ppc tips for installing from the 0.8.1 ppc iso
PossessGuide - Installation via sorcery from running host system
LVM2-on-root Guide - Coming soon!
Using Source Mage
The Codex
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Differences with Gentoo and Differences with Gentoo, which seem to be mostly the same.
HowTo's
Source Mage Development
SourceMage/Hall of Fame for past developers
http://bugs.sourcemage.org - Bugzilla
Source Mage Teams
Grimoire Team
Spell Writing Handbook- Reference material for making spells, contains a listing of each of the spell files, with information on the purpose of each file. Moved to drupal.
Grimoire Guru Handbook - A Guide to being a Grimoire Guru
New Grimoire Guru Handbook - playground for the next grimoire guru handbook
Spell Submission - Procedure for submitting a spell for inclusion in the grimoire
Grimoire ChangeLog - Information about the grimoire ChangeLog file
Git Guide - A Guide to using our new Grimoire Respository for Guru's (replaces Perforce)
Cogito Guide - A Guide to using Cogito, a cli front end to Git
License List - A list of license abbreviations for use in spells
SoftwareSubscriptions - How to stay informed on updates to the software in your section
Grimoire Patches - Draft about improvements of patches handling
Missing Games - List of various games which are not yet on the grimoire
The License Inventory project
gcc testing - How to handle stricter and stricter gcc?
Security Team
Cauldron Team - Documents related to the Cauldron Team. When updating this section, please update the Cauldron Team page as well.
Quality Assurance Team
Miscellaneous
IRC Quotes - listen to our great developers and their moments of Wisdom
http://ircstats.sourcemage.org/ - IRC channel statistics
Voting Policy - Rules on voting processes User Comments - Comments from our users
Enthrall - Menu Generating - Automatically generate menus for various windowmanagers
Summer of Code - Collection of ideas for projects which potential developers brought in by the 'Summer of Code' project could assist in
Using The Wiki
HelpOnFormatting - MoinMoin Wiki syntax
