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# Serenity
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x86 Unix-like operating system for IBM PC-compatibles.
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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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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.
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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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* mmap()
* /proc filesystem
* Local sockets
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* Pseudoterminals
* Event-driven GUI library
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* PNG format support
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* Text editor
* IRC client
* DNS lookup
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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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See the [step-by-step guide to building Serenity ](https://github.com/awesomekling/serenity/blob/master/Meta/BuildInstructions.md )
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## Author
* **Andreas Kling** - [awesomekling ](https://github.com/awesomekling )
## License
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Undecided. I will probably go with something BSD-ish.
