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.

I've grown tired of cutesy and condescending software that doesn't take itself or the user seriously. This is my effort to bring back the feeling of computing I once knew.

Roughly speaking, the goal here 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.

I regularly post raw development videos on my YouTube channel.

There's also a Patreon if you would like to show some support that way.

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Current features

Pre-emptive multitasking
Multithreading
Compositing window server
IPv4 networking with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP
ext2 filesystem
Unix-like libc and userland
mmap()
/proc filesystem
Local sockets
Pseudoterminals
Event loop library (LibCore)
High-level GUI library (LibGUI)
PNG format support
Text editor
IRC client
DNS lookup
Minesweeper
Other stuff I can't think of right now...

How do I build and run this?

See the step-by-step guide to building Serenity

Author

Andreas Kling - awesomekling

License

Serenity is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.

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