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SHR (operating system)

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Developer
  
SHR community

Working state
  
Current

Available in
  
Multilingual

OS family
  
Unix-like

Source model
  
Open source

Update method
  
opkg

SHR (operating system)

SHR (formerly Stable Hybrid Release) is a community-driven Linux distribution for smartphones which is based on OpenEmbedded and the FSO framework. Several different graphical toolkits are made available, such as GTK+ and Qt.

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System requirements

The current unstable and testing release is for Openmoko's Neo 1973 and FreeRunner, both having an ARM architecture. At the moment SHR Core is being ported to Nexus S, GTA04 and Nokia N900 devices.

Shipped software

The following software packages are shipped and pre-installed by default:

  • address book: contacts
  • telephone functionality: Dialer
  • SMS functionality: Messages
  • web browser: Midori
  • instant messenger: Pidgin
  • terminal: Almquist (ash)
  • media player: intone, an MPlayer front-end
  • map and GPS viewer: FoxtrotGPS. offering the following maps:
  • OpenStreetMap (OSM)
  • OpenCycleMap
  • Google Maps
  • Google Maps / Satellite view
  • maps-for-free (free relief layers for Google Maps)

    • References

    SHR (operating system) Wikipedia
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