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Region now has is_user_accessible(), which informs the memory manager how to map these pages. Previously, we were just passing a "bool user_allowed" to various functions and I'm not at all sure that any of that was correct. All the Region constructors are now hidden, and you must go through one of these helpers to construct a region: - Region::create_user_accessible(...) - Region::create_kernel_only(...) That ensures that we don't accidentally create a Region without specifying user accessibility. :^) |
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Serenity
Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
About
I always wondered what it would be like to write my own operating system, but I never took it seriously. Until now.
Serenity 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.
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 me, for me, based on the things I like.
If you like some of the same things, you are welcome to join the project. It would be great to one day change the above to say "this is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like." :^)
I regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on my YouTube channel.
Sometimes I write about about the system on my github.io blog.
There's also a Patreon if you would like to show some support that way.
Screenshot
Current features
- Pre-emptive multitasking
- Multithreading
- Compositing window server
- IPv4 networking with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP
- ext2 filesystem
- Unix-like libc and userland
- POSIX signals
- Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
- mmap()
- /proc filesystem
- Local sockets
- Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
- JSON framework
- Low-level utility library (LibCore)
- High-level GUI library (LibGUI)
- Visual GUI design tool
- PNG format support
- Text editor
- IRC client
- Simple painting application
- DNS lookup
- Desktop games: Minesweeper and Snake
- Ports system (needs more packages!)
- Other stuff I can't think of right now...
How do I build and run this?
Make sure you have all the dependencies installed:
sudo apt install libmpfr-dev libmpc-dev libgmp-dev e2fsprogs qemu-system-i386 qemu-utils
Go into the Toolchain/ directory and run the BuildIt.sh script. Then source the UseIt.sh script to put the i686-pc-serenity toolchain in your $PATH.
Once you've done both of those, go into the Kernel/ directory, then run
./makeall.sh, and if nothing breaks too much, take it for a spin by using
./run.
Later on, when you git pull to get the latest changes, there's no need to rebuild the toolchain. You can simply rerun ./makeall.sh in the Kernel/ directory and you'll be good to ./run again.
IRC
Come chat in #serenityos on the Freenode IRC network.
Author
- Andreas Kling - awesomekling
Contributors
- Robin Burchell - rburchell
Feel free to append yourself here if you've made some sweet contributions. :)
License
Serenity is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.