SerenityOS

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

About

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.

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.

I (Andreas) regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on my YouTube channel.

Sometimes I write about the system on my github.io blog.

I'm also on Patreon and GitHub Sponsors if you would like to show some support that way.

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Kernel features

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
ext2 filesystem
POSIX signals
Purgeable memory
/proc filesystem
Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
Filesystem notifications
CPU and memory profiling
SoundBlaster 16 driver
VMWare/QEMU mouse integration

System services

Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
Compositing window server (WindowServer)
DNS client (LookupServer)
Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)

Libraries

C++ templates and containers (AK)
Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
2D graphics library (LibGfx)
GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
HTML/CSS engine (LibHTML)
Markdown (LibMarkdown)
Audio (LibAudio)
PCI database (LibPCIDB)
Terminal emulation (LibVT)
Network protocols (HTTP) (LibProtocol)

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)
IRC client
Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
Various desktop apps & games
Color themes

How do I build and run this?

See the SerenityOS build instructions

Wanna chat?

Come hang out with us in #serenityos on the Freenode IRC network.

Author

Andreas Kling - awesomekling

Contributors

Robin Burchell - rburchell
Conrad Pankoff - deoxxa
Sergey Bugaev - bugaevc

(And many more!) Feel free to append yourself here if you've made some sweet contributions. :)

License

SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.

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