At this place, you will find development documentation, which is written by developers and is for developers. So there is no translation available and it might not be complete.

To get in touch with the people developing the IPFire distribution, there are several ways to do this. Please read this guide very carefully in order to find the right person to contact. This will help us to help you much faster.

• Getting in touch with the developers

• Source Code
• Git Guide
• Dealing with bug reports
• Nightly Builds

• Pakfire
  • Packaging Guidelines
• Submitting Patches

• IPFire 2.x Release Schedule
• Coding Style
• Monthly Telephone Conference

• IPFire 2.x - Build Howto, Nightly Builds
• IPFire 2.x - Building Addons
• Creating language file

Step-by-step guide

• 1. Get Image
• 2. Change keymap
• 3. Configure network
• 4. Get initial updates
• 5. Activate ssh (optional)
• 6. Install nano (optional)
• 7. Prepare Git
• 8. Prepare Pakfire
• 9. Make changes on packages
• 10. Build the package locally
• 11. Scratch build package
• 12. Commit changes
• 13. Send patch to patchwork

• ARM
• LDAP
• Network
• Systemd
• Suricata
• Changing Keymap
• SELinux
• Kernels
• Bootsplash
• Proxy