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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.