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# SerenityOS
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Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
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![Travis CI status ](https://api.travis-ci.com/SerenityOS/serenity.svg?branch=master )
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## About
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SerenityOS is a love letter to '90s user interfaces with a custom Unix-like core. It flatters with sincerity by stealing beautiful ideas from various other systems.
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Roughly speaking, the goal is a marriage between the aesthetic of late-1990s productivity software and the power-user accessibility of late-2000s \*nix. This is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like.
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I (Andreas) regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on [my YouTube channel ](https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/ ).
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Sometimes I write about the system on [my github.io blog ](https://awesomekling.github.io/ ).
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I'm also on [Patreon ](https://www.patreon.com/serenityos ) and [GitHub Sponsors ](https://github.com/sponsors/awesomekling ) if you would like to show some support that way.
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## Screenshot
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![Screenshot as of 8ea4375 ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SerenityOS/serenity/master/Meta/screenshot-8ea4375.png )
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## Kernel features
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* x86 (32-bit) kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
* Hardware protections (SMEP, SMAP, UMIP, NX, WP, TSD, ...)
* IPv4 stack with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
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* ext2 filesystem
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* POSIX signals
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* Purgeable memory
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* /proc filesystem
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* Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
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* Filesystem notifications
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* CPU and memory profiling
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* SoundBlaster 16 driver
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* VMWare/QEMU mouse integration
## System services
* Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
* Compositing window server (WindowServer)
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* Text console manager (TTYServer)
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* DNS client (LookupServer)
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* Network protocols server (ProtocolServer)
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* Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
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* Desktop notifications (NotificationServer)
* HTTP server (WebServer)
* Telnet server (TelnetServer)
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* DHCP client (DHCPClient)
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## Libraries
* C++ templates and containers (AK)
* Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
* 2D graphics library (LibGfx)
* GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
* Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
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* HTML/CSS engine (LibWeb)
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* JavaScript engine (LibJS)
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* Markdown (LibMarkdown)
* Audio (LibAudio)
* PCI database (LibPCIDB)
* Terminal emulation (LibVT)
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* Out-of-process network protocol I/O (LibProtocol)
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* Mathematical functions (LibM)
* ELF file handing (LibELF)
* POSIX threading (LibPthread)
* Higher-level threading (LibThread)
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* Transport Layer Security (LibTLS)
* HTTP and HTTPS (LibHTTP)
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## Userland features
* Unix-like libc and userland
* Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
* On-line help system (both terminal and GUI variants)
* Web browser (Browser)
* C++ IDE (HackStudio)
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* IRC client
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* Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
* Various desktop apps & games
* Color themes
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## How do I read the documentation?
Man pages are browsable outside of SerenityOS under [Base/usr/share/man ](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Base/usr/share/man ).
When running SerenityOS you can use `man` for the terminal interface, or `help` for the GUI interface.
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## How do I build and run this?
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See the [SerenityOS build instructions ](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documentation/BuildInstructions.md )
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## Before opening an issue
Please see the [issue policy ](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#issue-policy ).
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## Wanna chat?
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Come hang out with us in `#serenityos` on the Freenode IRC network.
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## Author
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* **Andreas Kling** - [awesomekling ](https://twitter.com/awesomekling )
## Contributors
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* **Robin Burchell** - [rburchell ](https://github.com/rburchell )
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* **Conrad Pankoff** - [deoxxa ](https://github.com/deoxxa )
* **Sergey Bugaev** - [bugaevc ](https://github.com/bugaevc )
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* **Liav A** - [supercomputer7 ](https://github.com/supercomputer7 )
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* **Linus Groh** - [linusg ](https://github.com/linusg )
* **Ali Mohammad Pur** - [alimpfard ](https://github.com/alimpfard )
* **Shannon Booth** - [shannonbooth ](https://github.com/shannonbooth )
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(And many more!) The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)
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## License
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SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.