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# Overview
-[SerenityOS](https://serenityos.org) is a unique operating system (OS)
-that I have seen pop up in my news feed a few times over the last few
-years, but I have never had time to test it out until now.
+[SerenityOS](https://serenityos.org) is a unique operating system (OS) that I
+have seen pop up in my news feed a few times over the last few years, but I have
+never had time to test it out until now.
Testing out this system brought back fond memories of yellowed,
-modem-screeching, 100-pound computers that brought so many fond memories
-to my youth.
+modem-screeching, 100-pound computers that brought so many fond memories to my
+youth.
Per their website:
> A graphical Unix-like operating system for desktop computers!
>
-> 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.
+> 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.
+> 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.
# Building
-Your first question may be \"Where\'s the iso?\" and the answer is...
-there are none. SerenityOS does not provide pre-built images for
-testing. You must build the images yourself. This seems intentionally to
-limit participation to only those who are truly interested enough to
-learn how to build the OS.
+Your first question may be "Where's the iso?" and the answer is... there are
+none. SerenityOS does not provide pre-built images for testing. You must build
+the images yourself. This seems intentionally to limit participation to only
+those who are truly interested enough to learn how to build the OS.
## Clone
-In order to get started, you\'ll need to clone the source repository:
+In order to get started, you'll need to clone the source repository:
```sh
git clone https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity && cd serenity
@@ -50,23 +48,21 @@ git clone https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity && cd serenity
Note that I followed the [Build
Instructions](https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/master/Documentation/BuildInstructions.md)
in the SerenityOS repository as of commit
-`660d2b53b1206e868d5470eee80b5e62d7e30da7`. Things may have
-changed since my installation, and you should double-check the
-instructions first.
+`660d2b53b1206e868d5470eee80b5e62d7e30da7`. Things may have changed since my
+installation, and you should double-check the instructions first.
-Regardless, I want to repeat my steps here to illustrate any errors or
-differing commands I needed to run in order to build and run SerenityOS.
+Regardless, I want to repeat my steps here to illustrate any errors or differing
+commands I needed to run in order to build and run SerenityOS.
-Since I am running Fedora, I needed to install these packages in order
-to build the OS images:
+Since I am running Fedora, I needed to install these packages in order to build
+the OS images:
```sh
sudo dnf install texinfo binutils-devel curl cmake mpfr-devel libmpc-devel gmp-devel e2fsprogs ninja-build patch ccache rsync @"C Development Tools and Libraries" @Virtualization
```
-Next, make sure you\'re inside the `serenity` directory
-created earlier during the git cloning process and process to build the
-toolchain:
+Next, make sure you're inside the `serenity` directory created earlier during
+the git cloning process and process to build the toolchain:
```sh
Meta/serenity.sh rebuild-toolchain
@@ -78,45 +74,43 @@ Once the toolchain is built, you can Build and run the OS!
Meta/serenity.sh run
```
-After this process is completed, the image should run automatically and
-launch.
+After this process is completed, the image should run automatically and launch.
# Issues
-I played around in SerenityOS for an hour or two in order to see what I
-could do and had a lot of fun with it. The only issue I ran into was a
-lack of working internet. I didn\'t try very hard, but I could tell that
-the main network link wasn\'t connecting to my Fedora host properly.
+I played around in SerenityOS for an hour or two in order to see what I could do
+and had a lot of fun with it. The only issue I ran into was a lack of working
+internet. I didn't try very hard, but I could tell that the main network link
+wasn't connecting to my Fedora host properly.
# Screenshots
-The initial launch of the image displays the SerenityOS desktop, with a
-simple terminal already launched:
+The initial launch of the image displays the SerenityOS desktop, with a simple
+terminal already launched:
![SerenityOS
Terminal](https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20220917-serenityos/initial_launch.png)
-Here you can see the Fire application (literally just shows fire
-burning), a browser with the local Serenity Browser page loaded, and a
-text editor.
+Here you can see the Fire application (literally just shows fire burning), a
+browser with the local Serenity Browser page loaded, and a text editor.
![SerenityOS
Fire](https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20220917-serenityos/basic_apps.png)
-I also poked around the system utilities and found most tools you\'d
-expect to find within a standard desktop.
+I also poked around the system utilities and found most tools you'd expect to
+find within a standard desktop.
![SerenityOS System
Monitor](https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20220917-serenityos/system_monitor.png)
-Lastly, I noted that the default desktop contains numerous pre-defined
-themes to choose from. This is a small piece, but it\'s actually
-wonderful to see desktop developers consider theming directly out of the
-box rather than using an addon-based mentality.
+Lastly, I noted that the default desktop contains numerous pre-defined themes to
+choose from. This is a small piece, but it's actually wonderful to see desktop
+developers consider theming directly out of the box rather than using an
+addon-based mentality.
![SerenityOS
Themes](https://img.cleberg.net/blog/20220917-serenityos/themes.png)
-I didn\'t take a screenshot of the other pre-installed games, but I did
-spend nearly 30 minutes playing Solitaire before remembering that I was
-supposed to be writing a post about the OS.
+I didn't take a screenshot of the other pre-installed games, but I did spend
+nearly 30 minutes playing Solitaire before remembering that I was supposed to be
+writing a post about the OS.