# 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.

## Features ##

### User View ###

### 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 available from [git.gag.com](http://git.gag.com) in the project 
[fw/altos](http://git.gag.com/?p=fw/altos;a=summary).  

Debian packages are also available:

	wget -O - http://altusmetrum.org/apt/altusmetrum.key | apt-key add -
	wget -O /etc/apt/sources.list.d/altos.list http://altusmetrum.org/apt/altos.list
	apt-get update
	apt-get install altos

Bdale has also created a theme for the 
[Simple Login Manager](http://slim.berlios.de/) that he uses on all of his
machines and is ideally suited for machines dedicated to AltOS ground station
use.  It includes a photo of a drag-race between nearly-identical rockets
built by Keith and Bdale, that was the first time either of us gave TeleMetrum
complete control of a rocket flight without some other backup!  This theme is 
available in the same repository, to install it and the slim login manager 
(packaged in Debian already), just do:

	apt-get install slim slim-altusmetrum