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Linus Groh 39af1f8519 Ports: Add Python 3.9
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. :^)
2021-01-18 22:28:56 +01:00
.github Libraries: Move to Userland/Libraries/ 2021-01-12 12:17:46 +01:00
AK AK: Add Vector::remove overload for removing entire ranges 2021-01-17 20:30:31 +01:00
Base Base: Remove irrelevant example from Shell's loop manpage section 2021-01-18 08:56:34 +01:00
Documentation Documentation: Add patch to fedora build deps (#4968) 2021-01-17 08:08:11 +01:00
Kernel Kernel+LibC: Add _SC_TTY_NAME_MAX 2021-01-18 22:28:56 +01:00
Meta Kernel: Some futex improvements 2021-01-17 20:30:31 +01:00
Ports Ports: Add Python 3.9 2021-01-18 22:28:56 +01:00
Toolchain Ports: Add Python 3.9 2021-01-18 22:28:56 +01:00
Userland LibM: Add nextafter() and nexttoward() stubs 2021-01-18 22:28:56 +01:00
.clang-format
.gitattributes
.gitignore Revert "Meta: Remove catchall lines in .gitignore (#4565)" 2020-12-28 00:16:46 +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
.prettierrc Meta: Move prettier config files to the root of the repository 2020-08-24 18:21:33 +02:00
CMakeLists.txt Services: Move to Userland/Services/ 2021-01-12 12:23:01 +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.