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Serenity Operating System
1# SerenityOS
2
3Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
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6
7## About
8
9SerenityOS 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.
10
11Roughly 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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13I (Andreas) regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on [my YouTube channel](https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/).
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15Sometimes I write about the system on [my github.io blog](https://awesomekling.github.io/).
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17I'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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19## Screenshot
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23## Kernel features
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25* x86 (32-bit) kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
26* Hardware protections (SMEP, SMAP, UMIP, NX, WP, TSD, ...)
27* IPv4 stack with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
28* ext2 filesystem
29* POSIX signals
30* Purgeable memory
31* /proc filesystem
32* Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
33* Filesystem notifications
34* CPU and memory profiling
35* SoundBlaster 16 driver
36* VMWare/QEMU mouse integration
37
38## System services
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40* Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
41* Compositing window server (WindowServer)
42* DNS client (LookupServer)
43* Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
44
45## Libraries
46
47* C++ templates and containers (AK)
48* Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
49* 2D graphics library (LibGfx)
50* GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
51* Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
52* HTML/CSS engine (LibHTML)
53* Markdown (LibMarkdown)
54* Audio (LibAudio)
55* PCI database (LibPCIDB)
56* Terminal emulation (LibVT)
57* Network protocols (HTTP) (LibProtocol)
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59## Userland features
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61* Unix-like libc and userland
62* Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
63* On-line help system (both terminal and GUI variants)
64* Web browser (Browser)
65* C++ IDE (HackStudio)
66* IRC client
67* Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
68* Various desktop apps & games
69* Color themes
70
71## How do I build and run this?
72
73See the [SerenityOS build instructions](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documentation/BuildInstructions.md)
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75## Wanna chat?
76
77Come hang out with us in `#serenityos` on the Freenode IRC network.
78
79## Author
80
81* **Andreas Kling** - [awesomekling](https://twitter.com/awesomekling)
82
83## Contributors
84
85* **Robin Burchell** - [rburchell](https://github.com/rburchell)
86* **Conrad Pankoff** - [deoxxa](https://github.com/deoxxa)
87* **Sergey Bugaev** - [bugaevc](https://github.com/bugaevc)
88
89(And many more!) Feel free to append yourself here if you've made some sweet contributions. :)
90
91## License
92
93SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.