The current version of our Python port (3.6.0) is over four years old by now and has (or had, I haven't actually tried it in a while) some limitations - time for an upgrade! The latest Python release is 3.9.1, so I used that version. It's a from-scratch port, no patches are taken from the previous port to ensure the smallest possible amount of code is patched. The BuildPython.sh script is useful so I kept it, with some tweaks. I added a short document explaining each patch to ease judging their underlying problem and necessity in the future. Compared to the old Python port, this one does support both the time module as well as threading (at least _thread) just fine. Importing modules written in C (everything in /usr/local/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload) currently asserts in Serenity's dynamic loader, which is unfortunate but probably solvable. Possibly related to #4642. I didn't try building Python statically, which might be one possibility to circumvent this issue. I also renamed the directory to just "python3", which is analogous to the Python 3.x package most Linux distributions provide. That implicitly means that we likely will not support multiple versions of the Python port at any given time, but again, neither do many other systems by default. Recent versions are usually backwards compatible anyway though, so having the latest shouldn't be a problem. On the other hand bumping the version should now be be as simple as updating the variables in version.sh, given that no new patches are required. These core modules to currently not build - I chose to ignore that for now rather than adding more patches to make them work somehow, which means they're fully unavailable. This should probably be fixed in Serenity itself. _ctypes, _decimal, _socket, mmap, resource, termios These optional modules requiring 3rd-party dependencies do currently not build (even with depends="ncurses openssl zlib"). Especially the absence of a readline port makes the REPL a bit painful to use. :^) _bz2, _curses, _curses_panel, _dbm, _gdbm, _hashlib, _lzma, _sqlite3, _ssl, _tkinter, _uuid, nis, ossaudiodev, readline, spwd, zlib I did some work on LibC and LibM beforehand to add at least stubs of missing required functions, it still encounters an ASSERT_NOT_REACHED() / TODO() every now and then, notably frexp() (implementations of that can be found online easily if you want to get that working right now). But then again that's our fault and not this port's. :^) |
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SerenityOS
Graphical Unix-like operating system for x86 computers.
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
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
- Andreas Kling - awesomekling
Contributors
- Robin Burchell - rburchell
- Conrad Pankoff - deoxxa
- Sergey Bugaev - bugaevc
- Liav A - supercomputer7
- Linus Groh - linusg
- Ali Mohammad Pur - alimpfard
- Shannon Booth - shannonbooth
- Hüseyin ASLITÜRK - asliturk
- Matthew Olsson - mattco98
- Nico Weber - nico
- Brian Gianforcaro - bgianfo
- Ben Wiederhake - BenWiederhake
- Tom - tomuta
- Paul Scharnofske - asynts
- Itamar Shenhar - itamar8910
- Luke Wilde - Lubrsi
- Brendan Coles - bcoles
- Andrew Kaster - ADKaster
(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.