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| author | Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> | 2010-09-02 23:14:32 -0400 |
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| committer | Bdale Garbee <bdale@gag.com> | 2010-09-02 23:14:32 -0400 |
| commit | 6c9e1c8b07655e7599304a7235e0c3c62c86032c (patch) | |
| tree | 1f9664d0f325668814b2fb6a133999eb1bcef062 | |
| parent | d046910747355b0863022c7c59b6e5de0f1c4e9c (diff) | |
more cleanups
| -rw-r--r-- | AltOS/index.mdwn | 19 |
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diff --git a/AltOS/index.mdwn b/AltOS/index.mdwn index 30a9279..5cf28c3 100644 --- a/AltOS/index.mdwn +++ b/AltOS/index.mdwn @@ -1,12 +1,7 @@ # AltOS -This is Keith's "operating system" for [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/). - -## Motivation ## - -[FreeRTOS](http://freertos.org) turned out to be too heavy for our needs, so -Keith started over from scratch and wrote something that does just what we -needed. +AltOS is the name of Keith's firmware "operating system" for +[TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum/) and [TeleDongle](../TeleDongle/). In addition to the firmware for [TeleMetrum](../TeleMetrum) and [TeleDongle](../TeleDongle) boards, the AltOS source tree also includes a @@ -14,21 +9,21 @@ number of utilities useful for monitoring and logging telemetry during flight, post-processing flight data for analysis, and utilities for updating firmware, and developing and debugging new functionality. The first generation of these utilities were Linux-only, but our current second-generation software written -largely in [Java](http://java.com) with a small platform-specific library on -each supported operating system works absolutely identically on Windows, Mac, -and Linux systems! +largely in [Java](http://java.com) with a small platform-specific library +works identically on Windows, Mac, and Linux systems! ## Features ## ### User View ### +Documentation is coming soon, but in the meantime, +most operations in the second-generation GUI are pretty easy to figure out. + ### Developer View ### * Licenses * The software is licensed [GPL version 2](http://www.gnu.org/licenses/old-licenses/gpl-2.0.html) -## Problems ## - ## Artifacts ## The source is available from [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com) in the project |