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Serenity Operating System

Primary LanguageC++BSD 2-Clause "Simplified" LicenseBSD-2-Clause

SerenityOS

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

Travis CI status

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.

Screenshot

Screenshot as of 1133aca

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

Contributors

(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.