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# Serenity
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Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
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## About
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*I always wondered what it would be like to write my own operating system, but I never took it seriously. Until now.*
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Serenity 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.
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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 me, for me, based on the things I like.
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If you like some of the same things, you are welcome to join the project. It would be great to one day change the above to say "this is a system by us, for us, based on the things we like." :^)
I regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on [my YouTube channel ](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3ts8coMP645hZw9JSD3pqQ ).
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There's also a [Patreon ](https://www.patreon.com/serenityos ) if you would like to show some support that way.
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## Screenshot
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## Current features
* Pre-emptive multitasking
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* Multithreading
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* Compositing window server
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* IPv4 networking with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP
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* ext2 filesystem
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* Unix-like libc and userland
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* Shell with pipes and I/O redirection
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* mmap()
* /proc filesystem
* Local sockets
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* Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
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* Event loop library (LibCore)
* High-level GUI library (LibGUI)
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* Visual GUI design tool
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* PNG format support
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* Text editor
* IRC client
* DNS lookup
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* Desktop games: Minesweeper and Snake
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* Other stuff I can't think of right now...
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## How do I build and run this?
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Go into the Toolchain/ directory and run the **BuildIt.sh** script. Then source the **UseIt.sh** script to put the i686-pc-serenity toolchain in your $PATH.
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Once you've done both of those, go into the Kernel directory, then run
**makeall.sh**, and if nothing breaks too much, take it for a spin by using
**run**.
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Otherwise, see the older [step-by-step guide to building Serenity ](https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity/blob/master/Meta/BuildInstructions.md )
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## IRC
Come chat in `#serenityos` on the Freenode IRC network.
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## Author
* **Andreas Kling** - [awesomekling ](https://github.com/awesomekling )
## License
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Serenity is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.
