Chapter 1: Getting Started

[kaosine]

Need to get this section updated ASAP. These bits are essential for anyone looking for information about pulsar right now, and trying to get started. Especially so we can re-include parts of it again that I omitted because the instructions were wonky and out of date. If need be we can comment out certain sections and bring them back as we get into distro repos.

These are what's included with this:

• Chapter 1 Getting Started
  • Why Pulsar? (the names will not match up, I'm changing them to match ours)
  • Installing Pulsar
    • this is going to be the hardest part and may have to be omitted until we can get repos updated and get links from cirrus or somewhere to use on the site. And not only to mention that, we need to get into the various repos even if it's just flatpak, copr, and snap for example.
  • Pulsar Basics
  • Summary

These are again located in the atom-archive/getting-started section, but there should also be a version in launch-manual/sections/getting-started to go off of. Compare and change as seen fit. I will create a branch tied to this to collab on.

[ghost]

Why is "Installing Pulsar" the hardest? This is just a collection of installation docs. What's wrong with getting this anyway?

[kaosine]

Because:

1. We're not in any repos, official or alternatives like COPR. Nor are we in flatpak, or snaps either
2. We don't have links to grab them automatically to download like we need on the site or on the main repo
3. Versioning is another issue
   1. We need to reset to 1.0 once we hit that for real(a lot of this is tied up in weird parts of the code or the custom modules that we haven't managed to replace yet)
   2. We don't have a build tags set up yet so that builds can be versioned correctly either. Such as Stable, Testing/Beta, and Dev. That's still a planned feature that is part of this.