Community Updates/2010-01-14
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− | Name=[[SHR]]| | + | Name=[[SHR]]|Description=SHR is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution for smartphones and |
− | Description=SHR is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution for smartphones. | + | is the most popular Operating System for the Freerunner. It has not |
+ | made a stable release yet, but enjoys continuous development, and this | ||
+ | is an update on all the great work that has been done recently. | ||
+ | Unstable and testing images are available for both the Freerunner, and | ||
+ | Neo 1973. A list of notable updates: | ||
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+ | A substantial FSO upgrade is hitting SHR. The reimplementation of FSO | ||
+ | API's in Vala is progressing, and is providing significant improvements | ||
+ | in speed. Specifically, SHR-U now features fsodeviced, fsousaged and | ||
+ | fsonetworkd. The upgrade also introduces a more elegant system of | ||
+ | separate configuration files for each daemon in etc/freesmartphone/*. | ||
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+ | Images are now available for ubifs, in addition to jffs and ext. ubifs | ||
+ | promises improved performance, as well as smarter logic of uSD wear. | ||
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− | + | The discussion about faster kernels is also affecting SHR; | |
− | + | (MTD_NAND_VERIFY_WRITE) is already pushed in. Experimental kernels | |
− | + | (2.6.29-rc3-drm, 2.6.31, 2.6.32) are available for testing at: | |
− | + | http://build.shr-project.org/tests/mrmoku/2.6.31/images/om-gta02 | |
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Revision as of 01:01, 14 January 2010
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Period 2010-01-01 to 2010-01-14
Introduction
Distributions
SHR
SHR is a community driven GNU/Linux distribution for smartphones and is the most popular Operating System for the Freerunner. It has not made a stable release yet, but enjoys continuous development, and this is an update on all the great work that has been done recently. Unstable and testing images are available for both the Freerunner, and Neo 1973. A list of notable updates:
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Applications
New Applications
Exampleapp 0.0.1
Exampleapp 0.0.1 is an application to do some stuff..
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Elm-Browser 1.0_r0.4
This is an initial release of a very fast, finger friendly webkit-efl / elementary based browser.
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rtmom 0.1
rtmom is a Python client for RememberTheMilk. It is based on Elementary.
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Openmokontrol 0.1
Openmokontrol is a CLI-controlled application for the Freerunner to send input events to a remote X11 server caused by accelerometer events, well usable for games.
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Application Updates
Exampleapp 0.0.1
Exampleapp 0.0.1 is an application to do some stuff..
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SpojeGUI
SpojeGUI is GUI program which use CLI program/modul spoje.py which is used mainly for Czech and Slovak transport.
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Community
Most important and change making mails on the mailing lists, blogs etc.. Coolest hacks, screenshots, themes etc..
- Harald Welte is planning to create a GSM development board based on 100% open hardware design and 100% free software. The initial focus is to create a board that behaves like a GSM cellphone. This could be interesting for the gta02-core project.
Event News
- 2009-mm-dd Example event | add your event here