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Tom cdbd878a14 Kernel: Fix APIC timer calibration to be more accurate
We were calibrating it to 260 instead of 250 ticks per second (being
off by one for the 1/10th second calibration time), resulting in
ticks of only ~3.6 ms instead of ~4ms. This gets us closer to ~4ms,
but because the APIC isn't nearly as precise as e.g. HPET, it will
only be a best effort. Then, use the higher precision reference
timer to more accurately calculate how many ticks we actually get
each second.

Also the frequency calculation was off, causing a "Frequency too slow"
error with VMware.

Fixes some problems observed in #5539
2021-03-01 11:11:09 +01:00
.github CI: Allow run step of on target tests to fail 2021-02-28 18:19:37 +01:00
AK Meta: Build AK and LibRegex tests in Lagom and for Serenity 2021-02-28 18:19:37 +01:00
Base Base/CI: Boot serenity in CI in a mode that runs tests on target 2021-02-28 18:19:37 +01:00
Documentation Meta: Use ninja instead of make in the WSL docs (#5575) 2021-03-01 11:10:50 +01:00
Kernel Kernel: Fix APIC timer calibration to be more accurate 2021-03-01 11:11:09 +01:00
Meta Lagom/Fuzzers: Add WAV fuzzer 2021-03-01 11:09:09 +01:00
Ports Ports: Update Python to 3.9.2 2021-02-21 21:44:52 +01:00
Toolchain Toolchain: Upgrade BuildQemu.sh to the latest 5.2.0 release 2021-02-24 10:28:15 +01:00
Userland LibAudio: Move format and BPS checks before VERIFYs in WAV loader 2021-03-01 11:09:09 +01:00
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.gitignore Ports: Move packages.db from Ports/ to Build/ 2021-02-01 19:40:34 +01:00
.pre-commit-config.yaml Meta: Update lint-{clang-format,shell-scripts}.sh to take a list of files 2020-12-27 21:25:27 +01:00
.prettierignore Meta: Add lint-prettier.sh 2020-12-27 21:25:27 +01:00
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CMakeLists.txt Meta: Build AK and LibRegex tests in Lagom and for Serenity 2021-02-28 18:19:37 +01:00
CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
CONTRIBUTING.md Meta+Docs+CI: Require clang-format >= 11 2020-12-31 21:51:00 +01:00
LICENSE Meta: Update project copyright dates (2018-2021) :^) 2021-01-01 01:14:16 +01:00
ReadMe.md Meta: Add Andrew Kaster to the contributors list :^) 2021-01-13 11:26:16 +01:00

SerenityOS

Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.

Build status Fuzzing 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 8ea4375

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)
  • Text console manager (TTYServer)
  • DNS client (LookupServer)
  • Network protocols server (ProtocolServer)
  • Software-mixing sound daemon (AudioServer)
  • Desktop notifications (NotificationServer)
  • HTTP server (WebServer)
  • Telnet server (TelnetServer)
  • DHCP client (DHCPClient)

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 (LibWeb)
  • JavaScript engine (LibJS)
  • Markdown (LibMarkdown)
  • Audio (LibAudio)
  • PCI database (LibPCIDB)
  • Terminal emulation (LibVT)
  • Out-of-process network protocol I/O (LibProtocol)
  • Mathematical functions (LibM)
  • ELF file handling (LibELF)
  • POSIX threading (LibPthread)
  • Higher-level threading (LibThread)
  • Transport Layer Security (LibTLS)
  • HTTP and HTTPS (LibHTTP)

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 read the documentation?

Man pages are browsable outside of SerenityOS under Base/usr/share/man.

When running SerenityOS you can use man for the terminal interface, or help for the GUI interface.

How do I build and run this?

See the SerenityOS build instructions

Before opening an issue

Please see the issue policy.

Communication hubs

The main hub is #serenityos on the Freenode IRC network.

We also have a project mailing list: serenityos-dev.

Author

Contributors

(And many more!) The people listed above have landed more than 100 commits in the project. :^)

License

SerenityOS is licensed under a 2-clause BSD license.