SHR (operating system)

SHR (formerly Stable Hybrid Release) wasAccording to the last commit in the SHR branch of meta-smartphone, SHR is no longer maintained. a community-driven Linux distribution for smartphones which was based on OpenEmbedded, Xorg, and the freesmartphone.org (FSO) framework. Several different graphical toolkits were made available, such as GTK+ and Qt.SHR on Openmoko Wiki

Supported devices The unstable and testing releases were released for Openmoko's Neo 1973 and FreeRunner smartphones.

Later on, SHR Core supported the FreeRunner and the GTA04.

SHR Core was also being ported to several devices like the HTC Dream, the Nexus S, the Palm Pre and Nokia N900 devices.Hardware on the former freesmartphone.org wiki. With various degrees of completion.HardwareComparison on the former freesmartphone.org wiki.

Applications

SHR had several rudimentary"OpenMoko: its present and future": 2009 article on LWN.net about OpenMoko, with a review of SHR. applications specially made for it, like an address book software,shr-contacts source code a dialer,shr-dialer source code an SMS applicationshr-messages source code and so on. It was also possible to install these applications on Debian.DebianOnFreeRunner page on the Debian Wiki

Many graphical Linux applications were also available like Midori and Pidgin, and it was also possible to use the terminal with the ash shell through a terminal application.

Front-ends for MPlayer, and other software like FoxtrotGPS that were developed for the OpenMoko and/or the distributions that ran on it were also available on SHR.

Software stack

The use of Xorg enabled to use many Linux applications, with various degrees of usability due to hardware constraints of the supported devices. Most/All of the supported devices had small displays with high Pixel density, and most of them had only a touchscreen based input and very few buttons."OpenMoko: 10 Years After": Retrospective of the OpenMoko by Michael Lauer which also mention SHR.

SHR used the FSO framework middleware to handle the smartphones power management and various peripherals.The freesmartphone.org cornucopia source code and older framework source code have more details. Several SHR developers were also contributing to the FSO framework in order to port SHR to newer devices.

SHR (operating system)

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