SHR (formerly Stable Hybrid Release) was
[According t]
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SHR is no longer maintained.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, X.Org Server, Xorg, and th
freesmartphone.org (FSO)framework. Several different graphical toolkits were made available, such as GTK+ and Qt (toolkit), Qt.
Supported devices
The unstable and testing releases were released for Openmoko's Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner, FreeRunner smartphones.
Later on, SHR Core supported the Neo FreeRunner, FreeRunner and the GTA04#Golden Delicious GTA04 board, GTA04.
SHR Core was also being ported to several devices like the HTC Dream, the Nexus S, the Palm Pre and Nokia N900 devices. with various degrees of completion.
Applications
SHR had several rudimentary
["OpenMoko: its present and future"](_blank)
2009 article on LWN.net about OpenMoko, with a review of SHR. applications specially made for it, like an address book software, a dialer, an SMS application and so on. It was also possible to install these applications on Debian.
[DebianOnFreeRunner page](_blank)
on th
Debian Wiki
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Many graphical Linux applications were also available like Midori (web browser), Midori and Pidgin (software), Pidgin, and it was also possible to use the terminal with the Almquist shell, ash shell through a terminal application.
Front-ends for MPlayer, and other software lik
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 X.Org Server, 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.
SHR used the FSO framework middleware to handle the smartphones power management and various peripherals.[Th]
freesmartphone.org cornucopia source code
and olde
framework
source code have more details. Several SHR developers were also contributing to the FSO framework in order to port SHR to newer devices.
See also
*Openmoko
*Replicant (operating system)
*Rooting (Android OS)
*Comparison of Linux distributions
References
External links
SHR official website
SHR on Openmoko Wiki
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ARM Linux distributions
Embedded Linux
Smartphone operating systems
Mobile operating systems
Free mobile software
Openmoko
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