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# SerenityOS
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Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
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## About
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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.
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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 us, for us, based on the things we like.
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I (Andreas) regularly post raw hacking sessions and demos on [my YouTube channel ](https://www.youtube.com/c/AndreasKling/ ).
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Sometimes I write about the system on [my github.io blog ](https://awesomekling.github.io/ ).
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I'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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## Screenshot
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![Screenshot as of b36968c.png ](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/SerenityOS/serenity/master/Meta/screenshot-b36968c.png )
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## Kernel features
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* x86 (32-bit) and x86_64 (64-bit) kernel with pre-emptive multi-threading
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* Hardware protections (SMEP, SMAP, UMIP, NX, WP, TSD, ...)
* IPv4 stack with ARP, TCP, UDP and ICMP protocols
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* ext2 filesystem
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* POSIX signals
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* Purgeable memory
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* /proc filesystem
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* Pseudoterminals (with /dev/pts filesystem)
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* Filesystem notifications
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* CPU and memory profiling
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* SoundBlaster 16 driver
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* VMWare/QEMU mouse integration
## System services
* Launch/session daemon (SystemServer)
* Compositing window server (WindowServer)
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* Text console manager (TTYServer)
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* DNS client (LookupServer)
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* Network protocols server (RequestServer and WebSocket)
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* Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
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* Desktop notifications (NotificationServer)
* HTTP server (WebServer)
* Telnet server (TelnetServer)
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* DHCP client (DHCPClient)
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## Libraries
* C++ templates and containers (AK)
* Event loop and utilities (LibCore)
* 2D graphics library (LibGfx)
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* OpenGL 1.x compatible library (LibGL)
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* GUI toolkit (LibGUI)
* Cross-process communication library (LibIPC)
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* HTML/CSS engine (LibWeb)
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* JavaScript engine (LibJS)
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* Markdown (LibMarkdown)
* Audio (LibAudio)
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* Digital Signal Processing/Synthesizer Chains (LibDSP)
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* PCI database (LibPCIDB)
* Terminal emulation (LibVT)
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* Out-of-process network protocol I/O (LibProtocol)
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* Mathematical functions (LibM)
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* ELF file handling (LibELF)
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* POSIX threading (LibPthread)
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* Higher-level threading (LibThreading)
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* Transport Layer Security (LibTLS)
* HTTP and HTTPS (LibHTTP)
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* IMAP (LibIMAP)
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## 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)
* Desktop synthesizer (Piano)
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* E-mail client (Mail)
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* Various desktop apps & games
* Color themes
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## How do I read the documentation?
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Man pages are available online at [man.serenityos.org ](https://man.serenityos.org ). These pages are generated from the Markdown source files in [`Base/usr/share/man` ](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/tree/master/Base/usr/share/man ) and updated automatically.
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When running SerenityOS you can use `man` for the terminal interface, or `help` for the GUI.
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## How do I build and run this?
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See the [SerenityOS build instructions ](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documentation/BuildInstructions.md )
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## Before opening an issue
Please see the [issue policy ](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#issue-policy ).
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FAQ: [Frequently Asked Questions ](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documentation/FAQ.md )
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## Get in touch
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Join our Discord server: [SerenityOS Discord ](https://discord.gg/serenityos )
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## Author
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* **Andreas Kling** - [awesomekling ](https://twitter.com/awesomekling )
## Contributors
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* **Robin Burchell** - [rburchell ](https://github.com/rburchell )
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* **Conrad Pankoff** - [deoxxa ](https://github.com/deoxxa )
* **Sergey Bugaev** - [bugaevc ](https://github.com/bugaevc )
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* **Liav A** - [supercomputer7 ](https://github.com/supercomputer7 )
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* **Linus Groh** - [linusg ](https://github.com/linusg )
* **Ali Mohammad Pur** - [alimpfard ](https://github.com/alimpfard )
* **Shannon Booth** - [shannonbooth ](https://github.com/shannonbooth )
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* **Hüseyin ASLITÜRK** - [asliturk ](https://github.com/asliturk )
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* **Matthew Olsson** - [mattco98 ](https://github.com/mattco98 )
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* **Nico Weber** - [nico ](https://github.com/nico )
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* **Brian Gianforcaro** - [bgianfo ](https://github.com/bgianfo )
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* **Ben Wiederhake** - [BenWiederhake ](https://github.com/BenWiederhake )
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* **Tom** - [tomuta ](https://github.com/tomuta )
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* **Paul Scharnofske** - [asynts ](https://github.com/asynts )
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* **Itamar Shenhar** - [itamar8910 ](https://github.com/itamar8910 )
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* **Luke Wilde** - [Lubrsi ](https://github.com/Lubrsi )
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* **Brendan Coles** - [bcoles ](https://github.com/bcoles )
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* **Andrew Kaster** - [ADKaster ](https://github.com/ADKaster )
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* **thankyouverycool** - [thankyouverycool ](https://github.com/thankyouverycool )
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* **Idan Horowitz** - [IdanHo ](https://github.com/IdanHo )
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* **Gunnar Beutner** - [gunnarbeutner ](https://github.com/gunnarbeutner )
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* **Tim Flynn** - [trflynn89 ](https://github.com/trflynn89 )
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* **Jean-Baptiste Boric** - [boricj ](https://github.com/boricj )
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* **Stephan Unverwerth** - [sunverwerth ](https://github.com/sunverwerth )
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* **Max Wipfli** - [MaxWipfli ](https://github.com/MaxWipfli )
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* **Daniel Bertalan** - [BertalanD ](https://github.com/BertalanD )
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* **Jelle Raaijmakers** - [GMTA ](https://github.com/GMTA )
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* **Sam Atkins** - [AtkinsSJ ](http://github.com/AtkinsSJ )
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* **Tobias Christiansen** - [TobyAsE ](https://github.com/TobyAsE )
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* **Lenny Maiorani** - [ldm5180 ](https://github.com/ldm5180 )
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* **sin-ack** - [sin-ack ](https://github.com/sin-ack )
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* **Jesse Buhagiar** - [Quaker762 ](https://github.com/Quaker762 )
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(And many more!) The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)
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## License
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SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.