upsilon/doc/user_manual.md

Copyright 2023 (C) Peter McGoron.

This file is a part of Upsilon, a free and open source software project. For license terms, refer to the files in doc/copying in the Upsilon source distribution.

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The User Manual is targeted towards non-programmers using Upsilon.

Preqreuisites

You will need to know the basics of Git. Git is the system used to track changes and update Upsilon. you will need to know the wwhat a git repository is, how to pull changes from a repository, what commit hashes are and how to make branches.

You must know basic Linux shell (change directories, edit files with vi) and basic SSH usage (sftp, ssh).

Knowledge of Micropython (a subset of Python) is required for scripting.

Building and Booting

Follow docs/docker.md to setup the build environment, build Upsilon, and boot Upsilon.